Do you look for your leader to behave ethically or will you be ethical even if everyone around you is not

Thank you Janice. I was wondering if you could share how would you behave in an environment where everyone around you acts unethically?

I don't know about everyone, but in the Philippines let's just say there wasn't a single project I didn't come across several stakeholders that didn't expect and sometimes demand some kind of monetary gift. An example, City Hall of the major business center came knocking on one of our project sponsor's door not long after opening, and notified them that one of the many permits required for operations was not completed. The reason? Because the city makes sure that not all permits are completed but still allows you to run a business, so they can come back later and shake you down for money. Another example, another vendor that we provided a turnkey project was in operations for around 12 months. The BIR (same as the USA's IRS) did an audit (let's call it a raid) of the company's records. Now since it was a cash business, naturally it was easy to spot some inconsistencies even if it was due to simple errors from waitresses with their receipts. The BIR found several of these inconsistencies involving small receipts worth say $100, and then calculated the maximum penalty with each offense, in this case totaling around 2 million pesos or $40K USD. But they didn't give it to the vendor in an official report, only a "draft report" issues by the BIR system that "may" result in imposing the penalty upon "subsequent investigation". In other words, if you pay something under the table, the problem might go away. This vendor met representatives at a local hotel lobby, over dinner (which they had to pay for the BIR reps) and then handed over 400K pesos in case in a brown paper bag, literally. That week, the problem went away. I can give perhaps 100 examples like this.