The Real Test of Your Team's Integrity #Leadership #TeamIntegrity #RestaurantLeadership

23 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video by Donald Burns about leadership and team integrity. The speakers define integrity as how a team performs when the leader is absent (team should operate near 100% without the leader), emphasize that culture flows down rather than up, and note that preaching values and standards is common but the real test is what happens when the leader isn't present.

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.