“A Culture of Excellence: The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is a book that focuses on the pivotal qualities of leadership needed to foster a positive culture and drive success within your organization. In part 6 of a 10 part radio interview series discussing the book, Dr. Fardad Fateri, shares his take on intuition and how it can influence the way an organization’s culture takes shape.
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welcome back again this is the inner
voice and I'm dr. Foojan and I'm
delighted to have dr. Fardad Fateri
who's the president and the CEO of
International Education Corporation
which owns and operates accredited
college across colleges across the
United States he is the author of a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and practice of breakthrough leadership
dr. Fateri is a part of a small group
of chief executives in American higher
education today with significant
experience in the imperative but rare
interwoven triad of academic operations
and business verticals with over 25
years of experience in higher education
and graduating from UC Irvine and
Harvard University's dr. Fateri has
served as a professor department chair
Dean regional director college president
division president chief academic
officer for director and presidency of
several medium to large-sized nonprofit
market funded and privately held systems
and we have them with us now welcome dr.
Fateri thank you so much thank you
for the invitation happy to be here
wonderful you also talked about
utilizing intuition intuition is one of
those words which is very interesting
because especially when it comes to
looking at numbers when it comes to in
an organization where there's a common
goal that you have to go forward and you
have uppers that you have to listen to
and all of that where is it that you're
actually looking at intuitive sense is
that you're talking about it in the
relations between an among people
co-workers or management or with
students or possibly decision making
that they're bringing their intuition
and how do they how do they know how to
touch and inspire themselves within that
type of an intuition yeah that's an
excellent question so I've got to stop
saying that because all your questions
have been X excellent
but you know when we talk about
intuition you know most organizations
and we are we're not an exception
because we are very analytically based
organization where we're very we make
decisions based on evidence
we are very analytical we're very report
driven and I think a lot of larger
organizations are that way but there
comes a point that you have to use your
gut and your intuition to go with what
you believe is right for example when I
interview people this is for me
personally you know you always look at
experience and and you always look at
expertise based on the person's
background and and and of course beyond
that you you always try to gauge
cultural fit with the person but then
when it comes to two to three people you
have to ultimately make a decision and
and as analytical as you can be you have
to use your gut to say this person is
gonna fit best within your team and this
person is gonna work best with all the
team players and within the culture and
within the community you have developed
because every person you employ even
when you have very clear standards and
values for your culture every person you
at your organization inherently will
influence your culture so you've got to
be very cautious in how you hire people
and we you know that's for example for
me that's when I use my intuition and
you know I'm not very good at it I would
say I have to say I'm 5050 when it comes
to hiring people but there's so much
analytics can do when you're dealing
with in an organization that has people
whether you're you know for us it's all
about service and people because our you
know you have your employees and plus
your customers are our people so we
don't have products to sell so you
intuition plays a big role in
contributing to your to your success
wonderful dr. Fardad Fateri
who has created and it's an e-book a
culture of excellence the art discipline
and the practice of breakthrough
leadership dr. Fateri where can
people will get your book actually the
book is also sold in paperback it is
available in digital format
my co-author James York and I very
excited to have that Amazon is probably
the fastest and most accessible way to
the book
About the Author: Fardad Fateri
Dedicated to the advancement of student success, leadership development, and organizational excellence, Dr. Fardad Fateri has devoted his 30-year career to catalyzing innovation and transformation in American higher education.
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