Ep. 537 Talk With Trust – Become the Leader Everyone Trusts with Kerry Siggins

It's different in every company.

It changes rapidly all the time.

And, you know, I think one of the reasons just in our conversations, you know, you want to have a platform is to help other leaders who are going through this new process of becoming a CEO or dealing with challenges within the organization.

Your first book is on the ownership mindset was something that was really a testament to what you've done as Donators Tools.

Could you share a little bit about why you wrote that book, a little bit about the employee ownership model that you all had, and what really, I guess, provoked you to write that first book?

I mean, the ownership mindset, I think, is the most powerful mindset that you can have, right? That I am responsible for everything in my life.

Nothing happens to me.

Things happen to me and through me.

Or because, I'm sorry, they happen because of me and through me.

And that changed my life.

And so as I started to see the power of owning it for myself and then building that through the organization and having this being an employee-owned company, It just all came together was so crystal clear of the power of ownership.

When you take personal responsibility, when you take responsibility within your team, if you take responsibility within the company, what can happen? And so I wanted to share my experience of becoming a person who owns it and building a company who owns it.

Because we have built so much success and we have such a unique culture.

People love working at StoneAge for the most part.

Not everybody loves working at StoneAge, but not everybody wants to really truly own it.

Some people just want to collect a paycheck and that's just not going to work at our company.

So I wanted to share the mistakes, the trials, the tribulations, the successes that we had as we built this really unique culture.

And I also wanted to inspire people to own it.

I mean, I think you talked about, you know, what's going on in the world today.

I think that what's going on in the world today is a complete and utter lack of the ownership mindset.

There's so much deflection and blame and finger-pointing and whataboutism.

And there's, like, it's looked down upon to take responsibility.

And I just completely disagree.

I think that when you take responsibility, it is the foundation for empowering yourself and truly making real change in your life.

So that's why I wrote the book, was to inspire people to own it themselves and to build teams and companies that own it.