Simon Sinek Quotes
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Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.
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Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
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I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.
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Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
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Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.
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The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
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Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
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We very often confuse personality with leadership.
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Most politicians are not authentic.
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We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.
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I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.
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If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
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I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
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If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.
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The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same.
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I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.
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The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
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Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.