For local transportation system managers, inspecting and ensuring the structural integrity of standing infrastructure is the top priority following a disaster.

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Integrity and trust must rank higher in the priority of a company than the convenience of keeping an otherwise skilled liar.

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For instance, performance metrics can put a higher priority on the human characteristics that contribute to integrity at a personal level.

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Those who risk their lives serving the nation must be confident that the people sending them into harm's way will not make personal or political gain a bigger priority than the protection of the mission's integrity.

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