Simon Sinek
16 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2023 by Simon Sinek · said 6 times in 5 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jul 10, 2023
Sinek: Leaders must establish context before asking rapid-fire questions
“Where I need to get better is I need to say, okay, I don't understand this, and this is what I don't understand, so I'm going to ask a bunch of questions to get at it. Don't take it personally, it's me trying to understand, right? Need to say that at the begin…”
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Sinek: There is never a valid reason to tell a white lie
“I personally don't believe there's ever a reason to tell a white lie, because if you tell one, you start telling more, and if you can get away with one, you can get away with more, and eventually those little white lies start to compound, and they become bigge…”
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Sinek prefers trusting quickly and getting burned over trusting slowly
“I trust very quickly, and obviously I've been burned a couple times, but I'd rather be burned a couple times and trust too quickly than trust too slowly, and sort of mess it up, and never earn trust, because that's pretty lonely.”
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Sinek: Unilateral decisions fundamentally break equal business partnerships
“Let's say you have a fifty-fifty business partner, and they just made a decision about somebody they're going to sell to or buy from without ever talking to you. That relationship, that business partnership's not going to work, right? Because somebody's making…”
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Sinek: Screaming at employees for mistakes stops them from telling the truth
“As a good leader, you have to create that environment, which means when somebody screws up, it has to go well. You can't just screaming and yelling at people because at some point they're going to stop telling you the truth.”
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Sinek: Personal purpose is found through friends, not self-reflection
“The thing you give to the world, your why is the value you have in other people's lives. So the way that you find out your, why the way you find out your value is by asking the people who value you to go on the pursuit by yourself and go sit on a mountain. You…”
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Sinek: Great leaders earn trust rather than demanding proof from teams
“Great leaders never say to their team, prove to me why I should trust you. It's the opposite. Great leaders have to earn the trust from their teams because the leader's supposed to be the provider and protector for the team, right?”
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Sinek: Active listening is making others feel heard, not repeating words
“So listening is the art of making other people feel heard. Validating the things they're saying, repeating back to them what you heard, saying it back to them in a different way. Let me make sure that I hear this right and saying it back to them as you heard i…”
Jul 10, 2023 negative
Sinek: Participation medals backfire and harm both top and bottom performers
“No, it's a bad idea. And there is actually evidence of that, that it actually backfires, because the people who do earn, you know, first or second medals, their accomplishment is devalued, right? And the people who come in last and get a medal, it makes them f…”