By trusting people you will become trusted. Trust is hard to build and easy to lose. Ethics and morals are so important for leaders and for businesses. So how do good leaders and good businesses do it? Good leaders and good business put the trust first. When consumers or even disciples trust good businesses and good leaders the trust is reciprocated. Consumers will buy product and disciples will follow.
Great businesses also need to have great people that will uphold the moral standards and ethics of the business. There are some individuals out there that are not worth hiring. They bring the moral down in a business and they end up over time undermining the leadership and the business. Their heart wasn’t in the business from the beginning. In my study this week on great leadership and great businesses, it was mentioned that great businesses hire “nice people”(Hiring Ethical People, Frank Levinson). Why would it be important to hire nice people? Well in doing so you are creating an atmosphere where people are treated how they want to be treated. Partnerships inside and outside of the company are forged and business is conducted in an ethical way. NIce people find peaceful solutions to challenges.
Great leaders are humble and professional. They lift others to greatness. They will also take the heat in the tough moments and they will share the praise in the good moments. Great leaders inspire and serve their followers. The same thing goes for great businesses. Great businesses will take the heat in the tough moments, yet they will do their best to overcome those tough moments. They share in the good moments with their team members and their customers. Great businesses inspire and provide services to their customers.
Without great leaders and great followers (nice people), good businesses will not become great.
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