“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 8 of a 10 part radio interview series discussing the book, Dr. Fardad Fateri discusses the importance of aligning perspectives in having an organization move as one.
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welcome back again this is the inner
voice and I'm doctor 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
Fardad Fateri
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 president and
CEO of several medium to large-sized non
profit 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 wrote about using
Using Perspective
perspective and then I was reading I'm
like oh that's an interesting concept
using perspective and then I started
looking at what do you mean by using
perspective and then you had the written
like can we have a perspective of being
one so can you talk about that yeah you
know you know many organizations have
excellent ideas excellent plans and
strategies to do various things that
they want to do however before engaging
their people and before getting buy-in
they start executing so one of the
things that we do here at IEC and I and
I think it's it's a best practice
across the board because I've seen lots
of organizations do it and do it
effectively is is to make sure the
entire organization buys into it it
doesn't matter if it's a great idea or a
bad idea or mediocre idea but when you
make when everybody buys in when
everybody understands the mission when
everybody is included that that that
culture of inclusiveness and and when
everybody provides their opinions and
their input and and when everybody
becomes a part of the whole they start
focusing on making sure you get the best
results you could have the best plan but
if your team members are not engaged and
have not bought into it you may not get
the results that you had originally
anticipated no matter how thoughtful the
idea was so might our thinking here is
to make sure there is engagement from
all levels and everybody starts acting
and behaving as one unit one family one
community and not moving in different
directions so on creating simplicity in
organizations and and and making sure
everybody understands that the two
levers of the business and and and
having all of them acting and behaving
as one is is a perspective and it's a
value we truly treasure and and we work
on a lot because it takes more time to
do it this way but we rather have three
great achievements as opposed to a
hundred poor performances with great
ideas and you were talking it reminded
me of our bodies where each organ each
part of our body takes excellence needs
to take excellent care of itself and do
its function and the ultimate level
however it's all doing it in the goal of
the one the whole what person to move
forward
have that type of an interdependence II
and I as I was hearing you being as we
started our conversation being the CEO
of your own position no matter what
position you have from the presidency oh
all the way as you say people who are
coming there and doing front liners or
being the at the beginning positions
beginner positions it's when every
single position the person owns it takes
care of themselves they're responsible
for every decision they make but they do
it in the bigger goal of the whole
company and the the benefit of their
clients and how they in an excellent way
deliver the product that they give then
as a unit the company moves forward and
therefore it benefits everyone else as
one mm-hmm
that's what I'm hearing from very very
very well summarized wonderful dr.
Fardad Fateri who has created and
it's an e-book a culture of excellence
the art discipline and the practice of a
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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