Leadership is a powerful role that allows you to realize what is bigger than yourself. How do you take on this role effectively? In this episode, Mark Havenner discusses how trust is the biggest factor in a resilient organization and how corporate should be working together more. He emphasizes that the corporate structure creates bottlenecks and slows down the efficiency of the organization.
Mark Havenner is a marketing and communications strategist with a specialized focus on brand and executive thought leadership, strategic content development, and corporate communications strategies. He has more than 20 years of experience aligning messages with business goals and developing myriad communications vehicles and message strategies for a lengthy roster of clients. He started a consultancy in 2021, focusing on industry leadership communications and marketing.
It is important for entrepreneurs to understand why they are doing what they are doing and what the end goal is. Listen in as Denis and Mark tackle this critical aspect of leadership and how leaders should condition themselves for optimal performance.
In this episode:
- Mark talks about how trust is the biggest factor in a resilient organization and that corporate should be working together more.
- The key to dismantling bottlenecks in businesses is to align around what the organization is trying to do and what its goals are.
- A common mistake businesses make is focusing on what they deliver to the market instead of why it matters.
- Mark argues that what makes Washington a great leader is his understanding of his role and the scope of what he was doing.
- Mark emphasizes the importance of trust in leaders and resilient organizations, noting that if leaders cannot trust their people, it will be difficult to manage through periods of uncertainty.
- Leaders need to scale back on what they do day-to-day in order to take care of their mental and physical health.
- Employees have expectations of leaders that have changed over the past few decades. They are more likely to set boundaries for themselves and be self-sufficient.
- The mindset shift for leaders will be to cooperate with other business leaders and industry leaders.
Key Takeaways:
- Examine how the corporate structure is built with the framework of bottlenecks
- Business must be aligned with something bigger than profit
- The value statement is king in better positioning
- Understand resiliency to posture the organization to handle storms
- Leaders must embrace uncertainty and be flexible in order to thrive
- Leadership in the future will be cooperative and focused on solving world problems
Tweetable Quotes:
“The corporate structure is just built with a framework of bottlenecks. Everybody’s getting in the way of everybody else, even though they have a shared goal and intention… Everything from meetings to what I’m doing on a Saturday afternoon… All of that works so much better without that corporate structure.” – Mark Havenner
“If you don’t know the point of the organization, then how are you supposed to know your role? And how are you supposed to know what your goals and objectives are?” – Mark Havenner
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