My favourite quotes from Simon Sinek regarding leadership

1. Simon Sinek

2. Books
- StartWithWy
- Leaders Eat Last
TedTalk
- Why good leaders make you feel safe
- How Great Leaders Inspire Action
- StartWithWhy

3. Corporate culture matters. How
management chooses to treat its people
impacts everything - for better or for worse.

4. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the
numbers to save the people. Poor leaders
sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

5. If you want to be a great leader, remember
to treat all people with respect at all times.
For one, because you never know when
you'll need their help. And two, because it's
a sign you respect people, which all great
leaders do.

6. More information is always better than
less.When people know the reason things
are happening, even if it's bad news, they
can adjust their expectations and react
accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only
serves to stir negative emotions.

7. Listening is active. At its most basic level,
it's about focus, paying attention.

8. Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by
themselves. Leaders who succeed are the
ones who allow others to help them.

9. If you hire people just because they can do a
job, they'll work for your money. But if you
hire people who believe what you believe,
they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and
tears.

10. Very few people or companies can clearly
articulate WHY they doWHAT they do. By
WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief -
WHY does your company exist?WHY do you
get out of bed every morning? AndWHY
should anyone care?

11. Happy employees ensure happy customers.
And happy customers ensure happy
shareholders—in that order.

12. Leading is not the same as being the leader.
Being the leader means you hold the
highest rank, either by earning it, good
fortune or navigating internal politics.
Leading, however, means that others
willingly follow you—not because they have
to, not because they are paid to, but
because they want to.

13. You don’t hire for skills, you hire for
attitude.You can always teach skills.

14. Great companies don’t hire skilled people and
motivate them, they hire already motivated
people and inspire them. People are either
motivated or they are not. Unless you give
motivated people something to believe in,
something bigger than their job to work
toward, they will motivate themselves to find a
new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.

15. Some in management positions operate as
if they are in a tree of monkeys.They make
sure that everyone at the top of the tree
looking down sees only smiles. But all too
often, those at the bottom looking up see
only asses.

16. And when a leader embraces their
responsibility to care for people instead of
caring for numbers, then people will follow,
solve problems and see to it that that
leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a
stable way and not the expedient way

17. Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

18. Leadership takes work. It takes time and
energy.The effects are not always easily
measured and they are not always
immediate. Leadership is always a
commitment to human beings

19. And that’s what trust is.We don’t just trust
people to obey the rules, we also trust that
they know when to break them

20. Emails get reactions. Phone calls start
conversations.

21. A five minute call replaces the time it takes
to read and reply to the original email and
read and reply to their reply... or replies.
And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting
the perfect email - no need to.

22. AreYou LeadingYour People, or Just
Running a Company?
Talk with your employees. In person. Don't
hide behind technology. If you're sending
out e-mails to find out how people are
doing, you're not listening.