
Integrity isn’t about words or intentions
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥. At one point, I was running two projects for the same client: one fixed-price, one time-and-materials. On the fixed-price project, we had badly underestimated and ended up spending far more hours than budgeted. On