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
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
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.
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
The cost of leadership is self-interest.
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
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.
If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.
I use Apple because they're easy to understand and everybody gets it.
Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.