Chad Silverstein speaks directly about the qualities he wants on his leadership team: authenticity (being real, not fake), ownership and responsibility for mistakes, and honesty. He emphasizes that leaders must be trusted because leaders model behavior that others follow; the organizational goal is to develop leaders who can build other leaders to enable growth, scale, and continuity.
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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.