When we talk about our business and political leaders, not to mention our colleagues, friends and family members, we often mention the importance of honesty, but what do we really mean by that? Are there acceptable deviations to this trait? Is any deviation, no matter how minor or well intentioned, a “slippery slope” to more dishonesty in the future?
What would a column on career development be without a discussion about your future? For millennia people have been fascinated with methods of predicting the future—tea leaves, tarot cards, astrology, psychics, palmistry—the list goes on and on. In fact, when I Googled “ways of predicting the future”, I got more than 52 million hits, which was two million more hits than “ways to develop your career”!