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Honor Code
Dispatches on building a written honor code: the lines you will not cross, the costs you agree to carry, and the practices that keep the code alive.
Use these essays to identify the line, restraint, test, growing edge, and transmission commitments that belong in a code you can use before the room starts negotiating.
11 dispatches
- The Counter-Cohn FileThe proof that honor wins: what Katharine Graham and Paul Volcker knew about the long game that Roy Cohn never learnedJul 15, 2026
- What Is a Leadership Honor Code? (And Why Every CEO Needs One Before the Next Hard Call)A set of decisions you've already made, written, specific, and tested, so that stress can't renegotiate them when the hard call arrives.Jun 20, 2026
- Choosing Character When No One’s WatchingThe most important decisions we make are the ones no one sees.Jul 18, 2025
- Conviction Is a Choice, Not a TraitWhy your beliefs mean nothing without actionJul 8, 2025
- Leadership is About CharacterWhy Integrity Shapes Great LeadersMay 12, 2025
- The Integrity TrapResist or Influence? Part 2 : Cato’s Uncompromising StandApr 1, 2025
- Leadership in ActionWhy Ownership and Trust Are the Foundations of Great TeamsJan 22, 2025
- Bend the Rules, But Don’t Break the Trust.Why Breaking the Rules Can Be a Smart Move For LeadersJan 21, 2025
- Quantum LeadershipWhy Wave-Particle Duality Is The Key to Flexible LeadershipOct 9, 2024
- Navigating the Ethics of Persuasion in LeadershipStrategies for Inspiring and Influencing with IntegrityMar 6, 2024
- Moral ClarityStoic Leaders on the Essence of Righteous ActionFeb 26, 2024
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