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
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.
All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'