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Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. (Wikipedia) This quality is also equated to – walking your talk, keeping up your word. Lying would be unethical, untruthful, show poor moral principles and end with not walking your talk. There is an implicit trust in what the professionals says and...

Everything we do in our life can be categorized/ ranked/ prioritised as per its importance and urgency. “ Putting 1^st things 1^st ”. As we grow to be team leader/ managers or partners, we find that most of our time gets focused on the unimportant activities or on urgent activities. It is like a chakravuha - a downward spiral with no hope of coming out. Knowing what is important we are stuck in inaction. We nod our head and agree that we need to dedicate more and more time to long term...

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Recently while looking at how knowledgeable professionals can improve their presentation and consequently their communication, I started to notice the use of fillers while speaking even by me. These are used when we collect our thoughts while conversing / presenting on what to say next. It can also come about due to use of very long sentences. These fillers at times get out of control and the object of transmission of information/ knowledge can be defeated. It is observed...