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I, like you, have listened to the saga of the LeBron James free-agent dance.<\/p>\nI, like you, have listened to the saga of the LeBron James free-agent dance.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, LeBron and some of his friends turned the system in on itself and beat the owners at their own game.\u00a0 And now they are very, very angry.<\/p>\n
James is criticized for making his decision public on ESPN, when exactly what he did was use the sports-crazed nation against itself in order to raise millions of dollars for the Big Brothers organization.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s being smart.<\/p>\n
That night, the owner of the Cavaliers came out with an emotionally scathing, slanderous attack against James.\u00a0 But let\u2019s talk about what\u2019s fair here.\u00a0 If James hadn\u2019t played up to the Cavaliers\u2019 standards they would be the first to send him on the road.\u00a0 And trust me, having lived in Music City, I\u2019ve seen more than a few famous people dropped by their record label and they never heard a word form them until they saw it on CNN.\u00a0 This happens all the time.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean it should, it just means this is an issue of integrity. Big companies employing tens of thousands of people in the public arena who don\u2019t give the support, the resources, who even force them into dishonest practices are sowing the seeds of their own demise. As are workers who cheat on their time-cards, who play around on the internet instead of being focused on the work at hand.<\/p>\n Integrity extends in the lives of our families; husbands flirting with their secretaries, women at home on Facebook rekindling old flames.\u00a0 It is a matter of integrity.<\/p>\n What we need, I\u2019m convinced, is a conviction that doing the right thing is not just the right thing, it will yield the right results. <\/strong>We\u2019re not honest because it\u2019s the policy; we\u2019re honest because it\u2019s right.\u00a0 And when you do what\u2019s right, ultimately it comes back to you.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called the law of reciprocity.<\/strong> It\u2019s what Jesus taught when he said, \u201cGive and it shall be given unto you.\u201d\u00a0 Give and you shall be given.\u00a0 Give what you give and you\u2019ll get it back. <\/strong> It applies to the amount as well.\u00a0 It also applies to integrity.\u00a0 So whether you\u2019re LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers, AT&T, BP, McDonalds, or a Mom & Pop store down the street, integrity on both sides of the fence, is the most profitable strategy you could ever commit to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I, like you, have listened to the saga of the LeBron James free-agent dance. As it turns out, LeBron and some of his friends turned the system in on itself and beat the owners at their own game.\u00a0 And now they are very, very angry. James is criticized for making his decision public on ESPN, … Continue reading “LeBron James, The Cleveland Cavaliers, and a Study in Integrity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nIntegrity resides on both sides of the working equation.<\/strong> That’s why I am such an advocate of entrepreneurial efforts to build your own businesses, work for yourself, and then if you work for a jerk, you\u2019re the problem.<\/p>\n