Opinion: Post-Bailout CEOs Need Integrity

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By Todd Thomas, founder of IMPACT Consulting and Development.

Only one in a 100 respondents said that they trusted their leaders in a December 2008 poll by CNN . Those who said they did either trusted specific leaders they knew or felt they had no choice but to trust their leaders because they are in a position of power.

While this question was asked in the context of political leadership, my work over the last 20 years with corporations and organizations would suggest that distrust in the corporate leadership world is nearly, if not equally, as bad. ...