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Simon Sinek
Simon O. Sinek (born October 9, 1973) is a British/American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant. He is the author of three books including the 2009 best seller Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2009). 2Early life and education Sinek was born in Wimbledon, England and as a child lived in Johannesburg, London and Hong Kong before settling in the US. He graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest in 1991. He studied law at London's City University and received a BA in cultural anthropology from Brandeis University. 2Career Sinek began his career at the New York ad agencies Euro RSCG and Ogilvy & Mather. He later launched his own business, Sinek Partners. His talk How Great Leaders Inspire Action is listed as the third most popular TED presentation of all time. In October 2009, he published his book Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. His second book called, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t appeared on the best seller lists of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. His third book is called Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiratio
Strong relationships, at home or work, are based on trust and communication. But if there is no communication there will be no trust.
A movement exists when people are inspired to move. To start a movement a leader must offer a vision, a direction of a place we want to go.
Every CEO on the planet knows that people are important, but not enough put their people first, - a little rant.
We can make up for lost money but we can't make up for lost time.
Confidence is believing you're good. Cockiness is believing you're better than anyone else. Leaders need to be confident not cocky.
Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.
Without action, we have only words.
Emotions are like vomit. You can only hold it in for so long before it all just comes out... and by that time it's pretty messy.
Strong leaders earn loyalty. Weak leaders demand it.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few and ended up helping many.
Leadership is not a journey to rise in the ranks. Leadership is a journey to help those around us rise.
The difference between vision and a goal is the finish line. A goal is 26.2 miles. You can simply count the metrics and know when you've completed your goal. A vision is having a crystal clear sense of what the finish line looks like, but no idea of how far away it is.
I had a good year last year, but am I successful? And the answer is no, I don't feel I am. Because I'm trying to build a world that doesn't exist yet.
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.
To lead requires those who willingly follow. It requires those who believe in something bigger than a single issue. To inspire starts with the clarity of WHY.
With trust comes a sense of value―real value, not just value equated with money. Value, by definition, is the transference of trust. You can't convince someone you have value, just as you can't convince someone to trust you.
People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. A failure to communicate WHY creates nothing but stress or doubt.
When most organizations or people think, act or communicate, they do so from the outside in, from WHAT to WHY. And for good reason - they go from clearest thing to the fizziest thing. We say WHAT we do, we sometimes say HOW we do it, but we rarely say WHY we do WHAT we do.