These are the non-negotiable standards of principled leadership.
1. Know Yourself and Your Purpose
2. Model Relentless Accountability
3. Develop and Protect Standards
4. Act with Integrity and Courage
5. Decide Decisively
6. Communicate with Precision
7. Drive Progress Relentlessly
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How to Use the Canon
- Review each standard and ask: Am I living this or avoiding it?
- Share with your team to spark real conversations and raise expectations.
- Return regularly to recalibrate your leadership against what matters.
Use it to anchor your integrity, build discipline, and lead with precision.
This is how principled leadership holds.
Hold Yourself to This Standard
Because leadership without standards invites drift, mediocrity, and harm.
The Leadership Canon exists to anchor your integrity, sharpen your impact, and eliminate excuse-making.
If you claim to lead, prove it by holding yourself to something higher every day.
Clarity, courage, and accountability start with you. Hold Yourself to This Standard.