Four Steps To Deal With Dishonest People

Four Steps To Deal With Dishonest People: You’ve been wronged. Now and then we all have to deal with someone being dishonest. I just had to. And while it’s very frustrating, a friend of mine reminded me that “it is hard to protect yourself from a lie.” That is, no matter how you cut it, no amount of due diligence will protect you from the ill effects of someone not playing straight with you. Ethics and integrity are oft-written-about topics when it comes to leadership, but that doesn’t mean that all leaders (or anyone for that matter) make the translation to their own actions. We all have experiences where leaders did not do what they said they would do, said one thing up the chain of command and another thing down the chain of command, or even flat-out did something dishonest.