The Integrity Dividend Leading by the Power of Your Word

For the first time, a leadership expert has been able to quantify the bottom-line value of keeping your word. Tony Simon shows that companies with high measures of integrity outperform all companies by at least 2. 5% and exhibit deeper employee commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and higher profitability.

THE INTEGRITY DIVIDEND

"If you walk the talk, practice what you preach, stand up for your beliefs, put your money where your mouth is, follow through on your promises—do what you say you will do—your business will make more money. You will also be more trusted, more powerful, more personally successful, have more loyal and committed people, and be more at peace with yourself." —FROM THE FOREWORD BY JIM KOUZES

CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of leaders. While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and their actions.

Now for the first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In The Integrity Dividend Tony Simons shows how leaders' personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organizations. This groundbreaking book is based on solid research and reveals that businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and substantially higher profitability. This improved performance is "the integrity dividend."

Using real-world insight and stories drawn from senior executives, line managers, and coaches, Simons clearly lays out the research he conducted and provides proven tools for managing common integrity challenges. The book offers guidance for building individual credibility and for creating an organizational culture of integrity and accountability.

The Integrity Dividendis a fresh view of leadership at a time when it is most needed.

"A clear, practical, and enlightening book. The Integrity Dividend is aptly named, for integrity is a core quality of all great leaders—one that pays multiple dividends not only in the results we create but in the lives of all those we impact, as well as in the way we feel about ourselves when we look in the mirror." —ROBERT GASS, EdD, creator of the Art of Leadership trainings

Corporate and government scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of leaders. While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and their actions. Now for the first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In The Integrity Dividend, Tony Simons shows how leaders? personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organization. This groundbreaking book is based in on solid research and reveals that businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and substantially higher profitability. This improved performance is the integrity dividend.

Simons conducted dozens of focus groups, surveyed thousands of employees, collected financial and operational numbers, and interviewed over 100 senior executives and executive coaches. The book lays out the research clearly and provides proven tools for managing common integrity challenges. It offers guidance for building individual credibility and for creating an organizational culture of integrity and accountability. Throughout, Simons uses real-world insight and stories drawn from senior executives, line managers, and coaches.

The Integrity Dividend is a fresh view of leadership at a time when it is most needed.