About the book
Henry Cloud, a clinical psychologist who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, argues that a person's character, more than talent or brains, is the real factor in success. Drawing on his experience with individual leaders, nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, he defines integrity as something broader than honesty and breaks it into six qualities. People with integrity, in his account, connect with others and build trust, stay oriented toward reality, embrace the negative, finish well, seek increase and understand the transcendent. Stories from business leaders such as Michael Dell and sports figures such as Tiger Woods illustrate each quality. Cloud presents integrity as a path of growth open to anyone rather than a trait a person either has or lacks.
Blackjack Apprenticeship founder Colin Jones urged every entrepreneur to read it, pointing to Cloud's view that many troubled businesses suffer from character problems rather than gaps in training or talent.
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Colin Jones (Founder/Blackjack Apprenticeship)
This is less of a business book, but I strongly recommend every entrepreneur to read the book "Integrity" by doctor Henry Cloud. The premise is that there is no shortage of bright gifted business people, but he's worked with a lot of CEOs and executives where businesses are having a lot of problems not because of business training, or business coaching, or even business giftedness, but much more from character issues, or personal deficiencies, and that book was very eye opening. I was able to kind of see flaws in myself, or a lot of business things that have gone awry, and our mutual friend Drew, even once said to me that, every major issue he's seen in the business networks he's in, are relational. So that book, "Integrity", is awesome, I want to re-read it every year or two.
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