Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility

Good Governance
and Social Responsibility

INTEGRIT HONOR Y AND ,
CORR UPTION AND DISHONOR

Where corruption flourishes,
honor perishes
When dishonor is admired,
integrity has expired
Manila, Philippines – September 8, 2010
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INTEGRITY AND HONOR,
CORRUPTION AND DISHONOR
This country may have problems

in areas of health, education, agriculture,
poverty, crime and corruption,
but you have one great asset
that outweighs all those liabilities…
Wisdom
The definition of
Jim Wesberry
Wisdom is
Far Eastern University 2
Manila, September 8, 2010
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INTEGRIT Y AND HONOR,
CORRUPTION AND DISH ONOR
Jim Wesberry
Integrity is telling myself

the truth and
Honesty is telling
the truth
to other people.
Spencer Johnson
Jim Wesberry
University of the East 5
Manila, August 18, 2010
Chapter One
Fading Honor…..
“Honor” is an endangered
word…a devalued verbal
currency.
Jim Wesberry
The anonymity of the megacity

has relegated honor to the
garbage heap of history. Personal
invisibility within the mass of
humanity has obviated the need
to be honorable or even honest.
Who cares what others think if
they don’t even know you?
Jim Wesberry
Choose a good
reputation over great
riches; being held in high
esteem is better than
silver or gold.
- Proverbs 22:1
Jim Wesberry
Simultaneously
with the
diminishing
importance of
honor
its meaning is being
diluted into
nothingness
Jim Wesberry
Honor, though not yet dead,

like the proverbial old soldier of the ballad…
is just fading away
Ballad: Old Soldiers Never Die

----
There is an old cookhouse, far far away

Where we get pork and beans, three times a day.
Beefsteak we never see, damn-all sugar for our tea
And we are gradually fading away.
Old soldiers never die,

Never die, never die,
Old soldiers never die
They just fade away.
Jim Wesberry
Rather fail with honor

than succeed by fraud
- Sophocles
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It is best to live with

honor for just a day
than with dishonor
for many decades
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Indian Spiritual Leader
Jim Wesberry
•Honorificabilitudinitatibus
•Honorificabilitudinity
•Honorableness
•Honorability
•Honorable
•Honoree
•Hon.
Jim Wesberry
•Is HONOR fading away too?

•Will it become obsolete?
•Do we, as individuals, deserve to be
honored?
•Do our parents and families deserve to be
honored?
•Does our country deserve to be honored?
•Does it make any difference anymore?
•If honor fades away, what will replace it?
Jim Wesberry
Far Eastern University
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What is an Honorable Man? (1)
•An honorable man is one who deserves

honor. He deserves honor because of his
character.
•A man whose children look up to him as
an example of a great father deserves
honor.
•A man whose wife can respect and love
him for his integrity, honesty, and
faithfulness deserves honor.
Jim Wesberry
What is an Honorable Man? (2)

•A man whose family and friends
respect him for his decency and
goodness deserves honor.
•A man who holds the intent to live
the best life he can, deserves honor.
•A man who dedicates his life to
making the world a better place,
deserves honor.
•Honorable men are those whose
lives inspire us, enrich our world, and
make the planet better by being here.
Jim Wesberry - Jennifer Jones
A person is not given integrity.
It results from
the relentless
pursuit of honesty
at all times
-author unknown
Jim Wesberry
Integrity + Honesty + Accountability

+ Ethics + Credibility
= HONORABILITY
Corruption + Fraud + Bribery

+ Irresponsibility + Inveracity
= DISHONOR
Jim Wesberry
• It is no longer always a
disgrace, blemish or stigma to be
corrupt, dishonest or dishonorable.
• Contempt for formerly high

standards is now often worn as an
ornament of pride, rather than a
blemish of shame.
Jim Wesberry
Jose Marti, Cuban Patriot
Jim Wesberry
In the Orwellian “Newspeak” of 2010:
Jim Wesberry
The pollution of the

human character is a
far worse danger than
environmental
contamination or
global warming
Jim Wesberry
Since an intelligence common to us all

makes things known to us and
formulates them in our minds, honorable
actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and
dishonorable actions to vice; and only a
madman would conclude that these
judgments are matters of opinion, and
not fixed by nature.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Jim Wesberry
Chapter Two
I hope that I shall always possess

Firmness and virtue enough
to maintain what I consider
the most enviable of all titles,
the character of an
Honest Man
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Jim Wesberry
Some short snapshots of corrupt practices

in Georgia at mid-2oth Century
A powerful and despotic County

Judge also owned a business that
sold his own county more
gasoline that all its vehicles and
equipment could possibly have
used in one whole year. He
became the first and only judge
impeached, convicted and
disbarred in the state.
Jim Wesberry
• Every single county official in a

certain county but one was found
by an audit involved in some
means of using their office for
personal gain. The one honest
official, a few years later while
serving as prosecutor of
bootleggers was blown to bits in
his driveway by a bomb attached
to his auto ignition.
Jim Wesberry
• A County Commissioner
contracted his own construction
company with state funds to build
roads in his own county. Upon
exposure in an audit he was
driven from office and convicted
only to be freed by a corrupt
judge. Several years later he was
reelected by a forgiving
electorate.
Jim Wesberry
• A tractor dealer created scores of

fictitious companies to bid against
each other on state procurements
where through collusion with
Assistant State Purchasing Officer
no other companies received
requests to bid. Finally he turned
state's evidence reluctantly but never
admitted guilt though hundreds of
documents signed by him bidding against
himself were proven. He served a limited
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prison term.
• The Governor's brother

received monthly checks from
major state supplier. He was
indicted, tried and found not
guilty through the brilliance of
an astute defense lawyer before
a gullible jury. He later was
elected to the State Legislature.
Jim Wesberry
• Numerous officials
enriched themselves
legally by buying
undeveloped property at
intersections where
major highways were to
be constructed.
Jim Wesberry
• Tax collection
administrators covered
up thefts by a colleague
who when proven guilty
took drugs to try to trick
a polygraph test.
Jim Wesberry
• Vote tally trickery, legal

shenanigans and lock
changes on the Capitol
Building’s doors resulted in
the state actually having
simultaneously three
governors instead of one
Jim Wesberryfor several weeks.
Far Eastern University
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• Election law rigging

made one rural voter’s
ballot worth more than
four city dwellers votes
over many
decades.
Jim Wesberry
•Dead people were so

well organized in one
county that they voted in
alphabetical order in
state elections.
(One State Senator jokingly
introduced a bill to
prohibit the deceased from
voting after they had been
dead for two years).
Jim Wesberry
Jim Wesberry
Jim Wesberry
If the chief party, whether it be the

people, or the army, or the nobility,
which you think most useful and of
most consequence to you for the
conservation of your dignity, be
corrupt, you must follow their humor
and indulge them,
and in that case honesty and
virtue are pernicious.
Jim Wesberry - Machiavelli
Seen too oft,

familiar with her
face,
we first
endure,
then pity,
then
embrace.
Jim Wesberry
Corruption?
Cancer? Fungus?
Plague? Curse?
HIV AIDS?
Corruption is
a
Heart
Problem!
Jim Wesberry
KLEPTOCRACY Corrupt
Government by Thieves
A collective social
heart attack
Jim Wesberry
University of the East 45
Manila, August 18, 2010
Integrity and honorability

constitute the real
Jim Wesberry
The triangle of corruption
POWER
CONTROLS STANDARDS
& VALUES
5 STEPS to erradicate
KLEPTOCRACY
1 Set as your personal

objectives: the pursuit of
honesty and rejection of
evil in your own life
KLEPTOCRACY
2 Clean your own heart
and mind of evil thoughts,
selfish desires,
covetousness, envy and the
acceptance of corrupt acts
whether large or small
KLEPTOCRACY
3 Unite with other citizens
adopting a
systematic, practical and
integral approach in the
fight
against corruption
KLEPTOCRACY
4 Declare permanent war

against corruption using all
available weapons, especially
including technology
KLEPTOCRACY
5 Teach integrity and honesty by
your own actions, your own
image…assuring that it is not
theoretical teaching but rather
applied and illustrated by the way
you act in your daily life
To accountability we must add integrity,

to integrity we must add honesty,
to honesty we must add ethical conduct and
to ethical conduct we must add credibility
through
truthfulness and
transparency.
Then we will merit honor…and

we must not let honor fade away.
Jim Wesberry
1LORD, who may dwell in your

sanctuary?
Who may live on your holy hill?
2 He whose walk is blameless
and who does what is righteous,

who speaks the truth from his heart
3 and has no slander on his tongue,
who does his neighbor no wrong

and casts no slur on his fellowman,
Jim Wesberry
4 who despises a vile man

but honors those who fear the
LORD,
who keeps his oath
even when it hurts,
5 who lends his money without usury
and does not accept a bribe against
the innocent.
He who does these things
will never be shaken.
Jim Wesberry
INTEGRIT HONOR,
An honest man
Y AND
is the
most
noble
work of
GodJim Wesberry
Manila, September 8, 2010 Alexander Pope
They could find

no corruption
in him, because
he was trustworthy
and neither corrupt
nor negligent.
- Daniel 6:4
Jim Wesberry
Pagpalain
God Bless the
Philippines kayo ng
God Bless
You
Dios
Thank You
Jim
&
Jim Wesberry
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CORR UPTION AND DISHONOR

This country may have problems

Integrity is telling myself

The anonymity of the megacity

Honor, though not yet dead,

Ballad: Old Soldiers Never Die

There is an old cookhouse, far far away

Old soldiers never die,

Rather fail with honor

It is best to live with

•Is HONOR fading away too?

What is an Honorable Man? (1)

•An honorable man is one who deserves

What is an Honorable Man? (2)

A person is not given integrity.

Integrity + Honesty + Accountability

Corruption + Fraud + Bribery

• Contempt for formerly high

Jose Marti, Cuban Patriot

In the Orwellian “Newspeak” of 2010:

The pollution of the

Since an intelligence common to us all

I hope that I shall always possess

Some short snapshots of corrupt practices

A powerful and despotic County

• Every single county official in a

• A tractor dealer created scores of

• The Governor's brother

• Vote tally trickery, legal

• Election law rigging

•Dead people were so

If the chief party, whether it be the

Seen too oft,

Integrity and honorability

1 Set as your personal

4 Declare permanent war

To accountability we must add integrity,

Then we will merit honor…and

1LORD, who may dwell in your

and who does what is righteous,

who does his neighbor no wrong

4 who despises a vile man

CORRUPTION AND DISH ONOR

They could find

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