Make your employees feel safe.
This is the number one thing I try to do as a leader. I try to make people feel safe around me.
Safety helps create speed in business for a couple of reasons:
First, when people aren’t spending time thinking how to navigate a situation, they’re spending time executing. When they’re executing, the entire machine moves faster and produces higher output.
Second, people are able to get to the punchline much faster than they otherwise would which helps save time.
We live in a world where a lot of people know there’s incredible upside to posting content on social media — it can change your life. Most people under 20 aspire to it.
It’s starting to change now because people are getting more anti-digital, but I just think consistent daily video, every day— I just know that one in every 10,000 people doing that around cooking, skiing, piano, guitar, ceramics, wine tasting — it’s gonna change your life.
You’re not always going to be able to make everyone happy...
Even if you want to! (Trust me I’m trying haha)
But as long as you lead with love, kindness and value you’re going to leave them better than you found them!