Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works shorter hours but comes home unhappy.”
Category: Book review
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This is a natural human right yet only a lucky few are entitled to
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.”
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Leadership effects cannot be realized immediately , this explains
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“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.”
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This is what happens when leaders put people before numbers
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“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.” -
Followers make the leaders who they are , this explains
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
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This is the imbalance that leads to job stress
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“Studies found that the effort required by a job is not in itself stressful, but rather the imbalance between the effort we give and the reward we feel.”
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How to judge whether you are a leader or not , this will help
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
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Great leaders sacrifice selfish interests , this highlights the same
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“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.”
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Good Leadership is like exercise , this explains how
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Simon Sinek from his book Leaders Eat Last
“Good leadership is like exercise. We do not see any improvement to our bodies with day-to-day comparisons. In fact, if we only compare the way our bodies look on a given day to how they looked the previous day, we would think our efforts had been wasted. It’s only when we compare pictures of ourselves over a period of weeks or months that we can see a stark difference. The impact of leadership is best judged over time.”
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Lessons to be learnt from Stockdale’s ways of dealing with difficulties
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”