As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.
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Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.
Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.
Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
While academic abilities remain integral, it is the work ethics that form the soul of the business.
It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.
At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.
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