Professionalism
In a soon-to-be-published biography and remembrance of the late Marvin Bower, the high priest of McKinsey & Co., there's a wonderful memo that should be tacked on the wall of every leader everywhere. Bower writes of admiring "first-class brains" and "good citizens in communities" but also of despising and abhorring (his words) "toadies who suck up to their bosses" and "buck-passers and people who don't tell the truth."