If you wander around the Diamond District, in NYC, you'll see all these skinny little guys, in rumpled suits, walking around; very often, accompanied by a much larger guy, in a more fitted suit.
These chaps can have millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in their pockets, and they routinely exchange them on a handshake basis.
Integrity has worked for them for a long, long time.
It's not dead. It's just resting. Probably pining for the Fjords.
Integrity is as important as it has always been. While you can certainly have a successful career or business that is lacking it, how much integrity you are perceived as having has an enormous influence on it.
If you are viewed as lacking, you will largely be restricted to doing business with people and companies who are also lacking because others won't give you the time of day.
These chaps can have millions of dollars' worth of diamonds in their pockets, and they routinely exchange them on a handshake basis.
Integrity has worked for them for a long, long time.
It's not dead. It's just resting. Probably pining for the Fjords.