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Reverend John Pellowe, CEO of Canadian Council of Christian Charities featured Barbara Killinger's book Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason on his blog Leadership Reflections.
Drawing on her clinical practice and pioneering efforts in workaholism, Dr Killinger describes the personality traits and psychological, philosophical, historical, and familial influences that help develop and maintain integrity.
In the same way, when people make those first choices that set them on a questionable course, before they lose their integrity, surely at that early point if a person recognized the significance of the present choice in terms of how it can lead to lost integrity, they would gratefully make a different choice and preserve their integrity. I thought someone should research that, and I discovered accidentally while perusing a bookstore this week that someone has. (I did my usual checking out of the book before deciding to buy it.)
Every person in Christian ministry should read this (secular) book called Integrity: Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reason. I’ll warn you though, it is a frightening read because the author, a clinical psychologist in Toronto, found that the earliest warning signals are things that I think every person already has to a degree in their psychological make-up: the desire to perform well.
Read the full article by Rev. John Pellowe here.
For more information on Integrity click here. Or read about Dr Killinger's upcoming book Achieving Inner Balance in Anxious Times (out in March), where she explains the dynamics of how workaholism can result in the loss of personal and professional integrity, and why ambitious, perfectionistic people typically become obsessive and increasingly narcissistic.
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