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
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.
Be the leader you wish you had.
There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.
Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.
We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.
We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.
Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.
Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.