Truth

Truth, the meaning of this concept has been brandished and spun on its head like a top since the first attempts at communication.  Even toddlers, just learning to form words, find a way to manipulate truth.  Truth to one is another person's fancy.  In communication truth makes or breaks credibility.  Truth is a symptom of integrity, that ever illusive construct we all strive for and sometimes we succeed and sometimes we do not.  In personal and professional communication truth will find a way to surface eventually.  Stay true and truth can never invalidate what has been communicated.  My creed in personal and professional communication of every form is truth.  We can banter about the variables of truth and we can speak truth while deception is woven through the truth.  However, when I encourage truth I encourage truth from the heart.  No deception, no spin, no variables, simple truth with no alternate meaning.