David Kreeger: Why Trust Breaks Down Between Leaders and Teams

"Alignment has to come from them. It can't come from the top down." — David KreegerMost CEOs think trust gets built by casting a clear vision. David Kreeger says that's backwards — vision is a one-way broadcast, and if nobody on your team has pushed back on it lately, that's not alignment. That's silence dressed up as consensus.David spent nearly a decade practicing law (DC firm, then in-house at IBM and Lenovo) before 14 years as an entrepreneur — a franchise painting business, an MMA gym, two companies in the RC hobby space. Across all of it, the throughline was the same: nothing moves without trust, and most leaders are building it wrong.What you'll walk away with:Why "vision casting" can quietly kill trust instead of building itThe Hyundai 10-year/100,000-mile lesson — how to make promises your reputation can actually back upThe Trust Triangle: character, competence, and common sense of purpose — and the piece most executives skipWhy asking better questions builds more authority than having all the answersHow to build real organizational alignment from the bottom up, not the top down#H2H #HumanConnectionPodcast #StartupLeadership #CompanyCulture #B2BRelationships===You can connect with David Kreeger here:https://www.thegopedal.nethttps://www.linkedin.com/in/david-kreeger-b1264b4/You can connect with Karl Pontau here:www.vouchedconnections.comwww.thehumanconnectionpodcast.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kpontauhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbf_bDWwB9KVrFn5Sj3u2w?sub_confirmation=1Please like, subscribe, and share this episode with somebody you care about!