*Leaders would Rather Fail with Honor
The Unmeasured Metric: Why Honor Outlives Profit At a recent roundtable, I watched a CEO eviscerate his manager: “I know you tried your best. But your best wasn’t good enough—it bore no fruit.” His careful phrasing and coiled posture betrayed contempt. Beneath the words lay an indictment: You failed to deliver profits, even if it required cutting corners. Your integrity is worthless without revenue. This moment crystallizes a modern leadership crisis. We claim to revere leaders who weather storms and scale summits—yet we discard them when they stumble honorably. Why do we applaud "discernible outcomes" but ignore the moral infrastructure required to achieve them? Why, in an era obsessed with ostentatious gains, has truthfulness become optional? I understand that leaders must create economic value. But pragmatism reveals a harder truth: The straight path doesn’t always lead to profit . Sometimes markets shift. Sometimes ethics constrain. Sometimes luck e...