Mike Andes explains why leaders must show up consistently, especially mornings and evenings. If you're absent, your team will appoint their own leader and form subcultures. Presence is how people know who's in charge.
For my GMs, they have to be there in the morning and the evening when the guys be back, every single time. The person that is going to be there every single time when they show up and then when they get back, that is the leader in their mind. And if it's not you, it will become one of them. And that's always where it'll go off track, you know, and if you. If you're not that person, they're going to find it internally and then they're going to create a subculture. That's totally what happened, too. I wasn't always coming to the shopping morning, which I felt like I should, but I also felt like I was just, like, wasting my time, like there wasn't anything happening besides me being at the show. Yeah, but it's a presence. That's what I'm saying. It's nice for them to kind of have that, like, consistency of someone here and just feel like they're not just, like, running the business, essentially. Exactly.
I feel like you also had a hard time after so many months of them working for us. You're like, what do I even talk about at the meeting?
Yeah, I just, like, stopped having morning meetings because I was like, I don't really have anything to eat at home. You should be doing as little talking as possible. In the perfect scenario, it won't happen overnight, but in a perfect poster, you're not doing a lot of talking during team meetings.
