Chad Silverstein argues that the most important quality for strong leaders is being genuine and transparent. He emphasizes that authentic leaders take responsibility for mistakes, enable organic leadership development, sustain positive culture, and model emotional honesty so others can grow and trust them.
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Strongest qualities and leaders for my leadership team has to be that they're real, they're genuine, that they're, you know, not fake. I think people who feel comfortable who they are, they feel comfortable owning and taking responsibility when they make mistakes. Those are the people I want to work around. You know, I think when you can see right through people because you know they're lying, they're not telling you the truth and you ask a follow up question and they're fumbling and you could just tell, you get a vibe. And I just don't like, I don't like working with individuals like that, especially on a leadership team. Because this is your foundation and where the leaders go in the organization, everyone else is going to go. So you grow your company, you grow your leadership team and the goal is to build your leaders so they can build other leaders. And if you don't believe in your leader, then how could you ever expect that person to go build another leader in your organization? And the only way to thrive and grow and scale is if you have that continuation of people building people in your organization. You can certainly try to bring people in from the outside and plug them in, but it's gonna be a lot harder. And it's harder for those people to even get the respect that you want them to have because you're bringing an outsider in. When you can organically grow your leadership team and then you can build into them and then they're building in other people, that is an incredible way to sustain a positive culture, that championship growth and performance. And I think, you know, having someone who's genuine, what could be more important than that? Knowing who you got showing up to work and not knowing what kind of a mood someone's going to be in. You know, the emotional intelligence of somebody, you know, catching them on a good day. Are we catching them on a bad day? There's nothing worse than that. You know, you got to be who you are. And if you're not having a good day, you should tell people that so that you don't have people wondering if they've done something wrong to upset you. So I think people who can do that, I want to be around you don't always have to be perfect. But I think being transparent, being real, raw, keeping it honest, I think that's, that's an incredible quality that most people are just scared to be. And it's an unfortunate thing because they have to kind of live two personalities at work. One way with their boss and then another way when they're out on the floor or outside of work.
