Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek
Simon O. Sinekis an author, speaker, and consultant who writes on leadership and management. He joined the RAND Corporation in 2010 as an adjunct staff member, where he advises on matters of military innovation and planning. He is known for popularizing the concepts of "the golden circle" and to "Start With Why", described by TED as "a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"'. Sinek's first TEDx Talk on "How...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1973
If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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.
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.
Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.
Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.