Ethics and Acquisition Professionalism: It is All About Trust

Abstract

One of my predecessors as Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and my former boss, John Betti, once commented to me, The most valuable thing any one of us has is our credibility; once credibility is gone, it can never be recovered. Credibility, or our capacity to have other people trust what we say, is essential to any successful acquisition professional. Trust in our credibility matters when we interact with our supervisors, subordinates, customers (military operators), the media, Congress and industryin other words with everyone we encounter. Once we lose credibility with any one of these groups, we arent far from losing itand our effectiveness with all of them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1016062

Entities

People

  • Frank Kendall

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Executives
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Marketing
  • Military Acquisition
  • Motivation
  • Supervisors
  • Training

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.