Sinek: Human-centric leadership spreads across organizations through promotions and outlasting legacy executives
Simon Sinek · How I Built Resilience: Live with Simon Sinek · Apr 23, 2020 · at 14:31
Simon Sinek outlines how bottom-up leadership creates cultural change in companies resistant to moving away from shareholder supremacy.
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“What starts to happen is these little groups, sometimes their divisions tend to be higher performing inside the company, which means one of two things happens. Senior management leaves you alone because you're doing well, or if they're curious, they come and say, what are you doing? And either way, some of the people in that group will get Moved or promoted into other groups, and they'll take what they've learned, and then you'll start to see little pockets of great leadership in other places, and before you know it, that person at the top who still has an old-fashioned view of business, they, they're dead or retired, and before you know it, we've, the tails wag the dog.”
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