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June 15, 2005

Can integrity be taught and measured ?

Prof. Robert Hooijberg of IMD (International Institute for Management Development) certainly thinks so. He just published an interesting article on "How to ensure integrity" in Chief Executive. He claims that proper behavior should be defined and measured, that integrity matters and people should be held accountable for it

Posted by on June 15, 2005 at 07:38 AM in Organizations and individuals |

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opal gibson

I want to learn integrity if it can be taught. I am a christian and I want to please God.

Posted by: opal gibson | November 21, 2008 at 03:53 AM

les

Hi,i admire your goal. you say you would like to please god well for that to take place you must first find out what displeases god.other wise you wont be able to keep your integrity..
As we have been given free will, the choices we make in our daily lives are a reflection of our integrity,integrity is the aspect by which God views our real feelings for him.and his Son..and not just by saying we love him. hope this is helpfull,Les

Posted by: les | February 09, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Graham Yates

This brings up an interesting question: Does God have emotions? If we assume that God can be pleased and displeased, then he has both positive (or, at least what we view as positive) and negative emotions.
Do we then then have to accept that God is capable of anger? Certainly the Old Testament tells us so. And what about jealousy? envy? desire? In fact, is God subject to all the human emotions? Does he have the capacity for lust even?
Or do we, in order to prevent us making ourselves feel too uncomfortable, arbitrarily limit 'God's emotions'? Anger is acceptable in a God but not lust?
It seems to me that we either have to accept God as devoid of all human emotion and hence an "unthinking" entity. Or he is subject to the full range of human emotions we are all so familiar with and therefore as frail and faulty as we are and therefore not really what is normally recognised as a God

Or have I missed something? I'm happy for clarification.

Posted by: Graham Yates | June 23, 2009 at 04:52 AM

Forevuh

Graham,
I found what you wrote very interesting and I had to think about that for a moment. I came to the conclusion that lust is an emotion we (humans) feel for something we want and do not own. Everything here on earth is God's, therefor why would he lust for anything? He already has it. That would be like someone lusting over their own child. He is the Almighty God. Not an unthinking entity nor frail or faulty.
Hope this helps you.

Posted by: Forevuh | April 20, 2012 at 04:25 AM

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