A short conversational transcript (YouTube) featuring Donald Burns discussing leadership and team integrity. The speakers argue that true integrity is how a team behaves when the leader is absent and that culture, standards, and core values must be embodied so teams can operate effectively without constant leader presence.
Your team should operate at a near a hundred percent even if they know you're not coming.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I would say that's the definition of integrity. Integrity is how people act when you're not around, when owners are around. That's real integrity. And does your team have integrity is like in and you know, we talk about culture flows down, it doesn't flow up. And we preach culture a lot. We preach about standards a lot. We preach about core values. We preach about all this stuff all the time. But again, what happens when you're not there? That's the big test.
I mean, I think so. You know, and listen, there's days where, you know, I take a weekend off or I don't go anymore. I try Saturday and Sundays, like I check in, but I might not go because they have to be able to do it without me, right.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
