The Integrity Fanda!
Standing at some point of influence the most critical responsobility when can have is the display of integrity to that role. When people follow you, looks upto you for solutions one small mistake can ruin your whole image as a person of authority.Its a common phonomena in our society that people tend to slip for very small personality weaknesses and ruin all earning of their life in a flash.
Compromising on small integrity issues creates dissatisfaction and agitation among different portions of the organizations like spending unncessarily, undue and unwanted priviliges for certain teams or individuals, violation of policies or procedures by those who are responsible for making those and many more.
The integrity compromise attitude is encouraged by the silence of "C type" mangement. If on paper there is some zero tolerance policy for compromising integrity of any core value of the orgnaization it should be applied to all.
People generally tend to forget quickly how much they paid to get to the place of authority and many people dream to be at their place. Achieveing some place is not a difficult task as compared to earning respect for integrity at that certain place.
Never compromise on integrity!!!