Businesses without a clear vision at the top won't have buy-in from employees. Mehmet Yuksek is a globally seasoned and accomplished strategic business leader with a demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams. He shares in the Unconventional Leadership podcast the importance of leadership within a company creating and sharing a clear vision. For a business to truly thrive, leaders need to spend time sharing with and listening to all aspects of the company. Mehmet and Mike sketch out the ideal ecosystem for a healthy business. It starts at the top but trickles all the way down. Wherever you fall on the totem poll, there is something for you.

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Quotes from the episode:

I boil (leadership principles) down to three things, from my perspective, number one would be what I call the 3H principle, I tried to lead with my head, my heart and my hands.

The teams that you have in the organization are the foundation of anything you do. Any sustained success happens with the right people in the right seats.

What do I want it to be known for? How do I want to be remembered inside of the organizations that I lead?

It's not just about you. It's not about me, it's about we. If you want to strengthen, if you want to leverage that, we, we need to be able to sit down and make sure that we're listening to our people.

Lead with humility and confidence.

If there's no organizational health, then its intelligence is not gonna last.

I would always finish with two questions. The number one is, how am I? And number two is, what else can I do to support you better?

Give me the good news and the bad news. Every single time I always ask. Not just the good news, but the bad news so that we can do something about it, because we should be doing something about it collectively.

So, definitely, there's always a reason to try, but I do believe certainly that for it to really be sustained in the mid to long term, it needs to be really nurtured and supported and enabled by the greater organization. So there's only so much one person can do. It's not about heroism, it's about being an agent of change.

That's one of the reasons why, when you look at data, employees thrive in environments of clarity and engagement because clarity makes everything about work and life better. It really transcends all borders. It's just the universal truth.


Resources:
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