Mike Andes argues that leaders who blindly back their team members move faster than everyone else. When you trust someone's integrity and intentions, you skip the questioning and second-guessing. Mistakes still happen, but that faith in good intentions is what lets organizations leap forward.
I will not promote you unless I can blindly back you up because I know whenever I start digging, your intentions are correct. Hmm. Yeah. And so like, this is like with the, the, the leadership team, I can always, if someone says something bad about you guys, I just can always back you guys up blindly cuz I know when I go back to you, it'll always be supportive of the vision, supportive of the values, supporting the owners. And because I don't have to question that, I don't have to question your integrity. Like it allows us to move faster. And so I think, um, as long as the team is treated correctly, like integrity is, man, such a great word. If I can trust that you have integrity, I can move faster. Mm-hmm. I think that's when, when there's a lack of integrity, there becomes a lack of trust. And when it comes to lack of trust, I move slower. But the ability to be able to back up blindly people in your organization, both from the employee to the owner and the owner down, is like where you can actually make leaps and bounds forward. And knowing that sometimes people will make mistakes, but you still back, back them up blindly because you know their intentions are correct. And then intentions is a derivative of integrity.
