Chapter 103. Be Straight at All Times and Speak the Truth
This Rule follows right on from the previous Rule. Obviously if you think your boss is an idiot, you don’t go and tell him—that’s taking honesty just a shade too far. But don’t lie, or cheat, or steal, or abuse, or defraud, or take advantage, or con, or trick, or swindle, or hinder, or worsen.
As a manager you have been given a privileged position—one of trust and honor. You are responsible for human lives—no, really, real human lives. You screw up and people get hurt. When they go home after working for you all day, they carry on living and breathing, feeling and loving, hurting and dreaming and hoping. You upset them or offend them or abuse them or lie to them and they take that home, ...
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