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
Simon Sinek quotes about
Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.
If you sell what you do, you're a vendor. If you sell why you do it, you're a brand.
If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.
I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'
Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.