I was having a chat with a friend the other day and she said, “you know, this Business integrity thing is confusing: for example, Fashola is working and so Lagos is working but only because he focuses on excellence not because he is focusing on doing things with integrity”. She is not alone, so many of us think that Business integrity is an oxymoron: a contradiction in terms in that either you have excellent Business or you maintain excellent integrity because, Business doesn’t seem to mix very well with integrity. At best All you get is a wishy-washy concept that results in below-standard performance. Is that the way you feel as well? Let us explore this point of view a little deeper on the assumption that the principal thing to pursue is excellence in Business . We should at least be agreed on what Business is and what it means to be excellent at it, not so?

Do a search on the web and you will find various definitions for Business .

For example we Are told it is a Commercial or Industrial Enterprise along with the people who constitute it; for example, "he bought his brother's Business ". This view suggests a going concern divorced from its proprietor: some... Full Article