Nessim Safarti shares leadership lessons on the NXT Podcast

There is also no success without the people who build it. Teams are the driving intellectual and operational force of a company, and a good leader knows not only how to guide them, but also how to structure the people who will move the business forward.

For Safarti, debate is essential to the development of ideas and helps drive results.

“If I was successful at anything, it was in building teams. I never had this idea of ‘there is me, and then there is the team.’ It was always ‘we did this’ and ‘we achieved this.’ There was no hierarchy in my team. People argued with me as well. Being part of my team did not mean that I was in charge of them. The result and the business were in charge,” he said.

A company’s results also need to reach its employees. Safarti emphasizes that ambition is important and that growth is the result of good decisions combined with professionalism.

Although he felt fulfilled by the projects he had developed, the search for new challenges and the desire to pursue his own ideas eventually led him to build his own company.

“Some decisions are yours alone. It is a responsibility that you carry.”

Topics such as transparency and predictability to provide employees with greater security, clear goals and responsibilities, discipline and empathy were also highlighted during the conversation, which presented a broader perspective on life through a corporate lens.