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.”
Tag: Simon Sinek Leadership quotes
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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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This quote brings out the subtle differences between IQ and EQ
Whereas IQ is based on Intelligence or Performance , EQ or emotional quotient is based on trust or character of a person that helps the person to collaborate with like minded people.
The following quote from Simon Sinek very aptly highlights the subtle difference between intelligence part of IQ and creativity part of EQ:
“Intelligence looks for what is KNOWN to solve problems.
Creativity looks for whatever is UNKNOWN to discover possibilities.”
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Whereas Motivation 2.0 created Workers , Motivation 3.0 creates Leaders
Motivation 2.0 is a term coined by Daniel Pink in his book Drive to explain the Carrot and Stick motivational methods prevalent in the Industrial Age.This method works best for routine , dreary , boring work that seeks compliance.
Whereas Motivation 3.0 is the new age motivational technique that focuses on intrinsic motivation to provided more autonomy to the worker in order to help him unleash his mastery upon communication of the overarching sense of purpose.
This autonomy is the pre-requisite to get done creative and innovative work which is becoming the necessary pre-requisite for modern day innovation based organizations.
The following quote of Simon Sinek endorses this very explanation of Daniel Pink:
“When we tell people to do their jobs , we get WORKERS.
When we TRUST people to get the job done , we get LEADERS.”
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This is how leadership is similar to parenting
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great leadership quotes:
“The JOY of LEADERSHIP comes from seeing others achieve more than they thought they were capable of.”
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Great quote on leadership
“The GREATEST contribution of a LEADER is to make others LEADERS.”
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great leadership quotes
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Weak culture vs Strong Culture
“A culture is STRONG when people work with each other , FOR each other.
As opposed to this , a culture is WEAK when people work AGAINST each other for themselves”
Adopted from Simon Sinek great leadership quotes
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Truth about Great Leaders and their vision
“Great Leaders speak about the future with such clarity , it is as if they are talking about the past.”
Adopted from Simon Sinek’s great leadership quotes