Eight Varieties of the Unintegrity Pandemic
I have catalogued Eight Varieties of the Unintegrity Pandemic. Most of them are self-explanatory, or at least nearly so. Yet, most tend to be thought of as separate problems rather than as symptoms of a single problem – Unintegrity:
- Lying: Telling falsehoods or concealing truths in order to manipulate you
- Undependability: Not making good on commitments made
- Unteachability: Refusal to recognize the consequences of my actions or inactions
- Non-Self-Responsibility: I had no part in what happened between us, what I did is not my fault
- Obsession: My goal is so important that I will reach it no matter what damage I do to myself or others along the way: the ends justify the means
- Disregarding Highest Good (personal, relationship or systemic): Short-term success achieved at the expense of long-term price; I get what I want in ways that make it harder to get what you want
- Unilateral Decisions About Highest Good: I know what is best for you and I will do whatever I must in order to bring it about
- Dysfunctional Systems: Those in the system know it is broken but do not make it a top priority to join together to do what is necessary to repair it. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. We’re doing the best we can just putting out today’s fires, and we will cover one another’s backs despite how broken the system is. Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Real life Unintegrity situations often include more than one of these qualities, but creating an individual portrait of each one makes it easier to spot them.
I invite you to reply to each of the posts in the “Unintegrity Flavors” category of this blog with additional examples of each of these flavors of unintegrity. I hope you will post news stories and that you will also be courageous enough to post examples from your own personal or business life as well. If you share personal stories, please do not name names of others or other specifics that would give away their identity without their permission. This is not a blog for tattle-tales, or an invitiation to indulge blaming, but rather a catalogue of examples that all of us, in our abundant humanness do, most often without even knowing it!
