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Leadership & Trust: The Power of Character in Influence | #businessinsights #leadership

25 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ashish Kothari. This content was uploaded by Ashish Kothari. This is a YouTube video titled "Leadership & Trust: The Power of Character in Influence | #businessinsights #leadership" (created 2025-06-25). The excerpt is a first-person talk/monologue in which the speaker (SPEAKER A) describes a leadership experience after moving to a Dallas role at Yum Brands, leading a portfolio of restaurants across geographies. The speaker emphasizes that effective influence and leading through others depend on being trustworthy — which requires competence and, importantly, strong character. The content focuses on leadership, influence, trust, and personal character.

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When I moved to my Dallas role with Yum Brands, and I was leading a portfolio of restaurants across multiple geographies, my single most important responsibility was to influence others, was to lead through other people by influencing them. And I realized that influence can only come if you're trustworthy. And that being trustworthy is not only about being competent, which, of course you have to be, but it also comes from having a strong character. So that was another very important realization, that I can only influence and lead through other people if I am trustworthy, and I'll be trustworthy only if I'm a man of character.