Chad SilversteinBuilt To Lead · Entrepreneur , Advisor, & Thought Leader

Let Your Team Fight (For Performance)

Name: Let Your Team Fight (For Performance)
Uploaded: 2025-06-05T17:19:10+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Chad Silverstein
Description: In this segment of his YouTube talk, Chad Silverstein explains how his organization, Built to Lead, cultivates a high‑performance culture by encouraging…

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of his YouTube talk, Chad Silverstein explains how his organization, Built to Lead, cultivates a high‑performance culture by encouraging open, performance‑focused debate rather than arguments aimed at proving a point. He stresses the importance of building deep trust so team members feel safe to speak candidly without fear of retaliation. By creating psychological safety, the team can engage in “fighting” over ideas, align on decisions, and move forward together. Silverstein also highlights the need to empower individuals at all levels—not just top leaders—to make decisions and passionately pursue what they believe will drive results, thereby fostering a culture of high performers.

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Fight for performance, not to prove a point. This is something that my team adopted with Built to Lead, that we had built enough trust amongst each other that we could fight, debate about everything that we were up against and challenged with as a company and as a team. And we could fight, and then we can align with whatever decision we made and then move forward. So I wanted to create a safe environment where people could trust that they weren't going to get fired if they spoke their mind. They were free to be themselves and free to say what they wanted to say. So we opened up those discussions and let people fight as long as they weren't fighting to prove their point, because we didn't care who was right and who was wrong. We cared about performance, and we wanted to create a culture of high performers. And the only way to do that is to allow other people outside of the leader or the person at the top to be the one who's making all the decisions and the one who is passionately going after things that they believe in.