Ville Houttu: Maximizing Transparency And Trust. This Bold Step Thrust One Company Toward Massive Success!

True transparency maximizes trust and enables a company to thrive! Vincit promotes proactive leadership and a bottom up leadership approach. The results: a rediculously successful business with no attrition and incredible engagement and productivity. 

Episode highlights:

• True Transparency- what it looks like to a company that is thriving
• Proactive leadership
• How this structure attracts outstanding people!

Explain what transparency looks like in you company

• Publish Salaries openly- colleagues nominate for raises. Twice a year
• Satisfaction guarantee for new employees. Pay people to leave within first two months
• Eliminated middle management
• Company credit card

How does transparency Maximize Trust?

• Bottom to top approach to leadership - focus on listening and reacting. Leadership as a service- created a platform. LaaS
• Increase Management workload? - lowers load because you are not predicting situations to handle situations. Individualize the model. People end up managing themselves

Transfer into your hiring process?

• What do they do in hiring?
• Screening to eliminate the mediocrity? they test interviews in teamwork based situations.
• Look for collaboration, skills and cultural fit. Have to be able ask questions, “having dialog”

Results?

• Attrition
• Engagement
• Productivity

Ville Houttu is the Founder and CEO of Vincit California, Inc. Previously, he helped to take it public in Nasdaq First North marketplace. After the IPO, Ville moved to California to start Vincit’s local subsidiary. During the first year of operations he built a team of 20 developers in Irvine and acquired OC’s hottest digital branding agency, XTOPOLY. The team operates in Irvine and Palo Alto, where they help companies such as Logitech and Yamaha to develop their mobile apps and digital services.

Ville is passionate about creating lean working environments and scaling operations without creating policies. He is also one of the few Ironman triathletes who plays steel guitar on several albums on Spotify.

 Check out the Blog on the Stride Search, Inc site for the supplementary “show recap” article with detailed takeaways/insights from the interview.