Your name is valuable

LAST week, I wrote about how valuable your name is. I spoke of how tempting it can be to take shortcuts and participate in corrupt dealings in order to get a quick buck, but I encouraged you that in the long run, it pays off to have a respectable name. I promised you this week to share an actual story to make this lesson practical.

My husband runs his own company. He is, in my opinion, the best professional project manager in the world! He is just so organised, brilliant, knows how to communicate well to motivate people to get the job done and navigate conflict when it inevitably arises within the projects. However, he misses out on big jobs frequently because when a project is on the table, the client is asking for a bribe of some sort or the company that does get awarded the jobs we find out has worked out a back-end deal to ensure they get the job.

It can be very frustrating at times because it feels like corruption pays off. I wanted to share an encouraging story that happened to me last week where I felt like years of operating with integrity “paid off ”. It is a small story that didn’t bear much money, but the lesson really encouraged me, and I hope it will encourage you. Don’t compromise. Your name is valuable. It is worth it to be someone who can be trusted.

We import high quality grafted fruit trees. We ask our clients to pay us before the trees even come to our farm so that on the day the trees arrive, customers are simply coming and collecting the trees. We have hundreds of clients and import thousands of trees. We try our level best to make sure that every single one of our clients gets the exact trees they have prepaid for.

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