Catalyst ’16 – 40 Leadership Quotes From Simon Sinek

As a member of the Catalyst Blog Team and INJOY Stewardship Solutions, I will be bringing you live updates from the much anticipated Catalyst Conference in Atlanta, GA.  The theme for this year’s conference is Uncommon Fellowship.

The day’s next speaker was Simon Sinek.  Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect”, Sinek is a trained ethnographer and author of Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Sinek has held a life-long curiosity for why people and organizations do the things they do.

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The following are 36 Leadership Quotes and Lessons from his incredible session:

1. I’m embarrassed that I have a career…There should be no demand for what I do.
2. Trust and cooperation are lacking in this world. And people are demanding more of it in this world.
3. We have fewer good leaders today than we need for what is required.
4. Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
5. One of the greatest things you can do is give your time and energy – things you will never get back.
6. When you choose to be a leader there are times when things go right you have to give away all the credit. When things go wrong you have to take all the blame.
7. Leaders don’t need authority to lead.
8. Anyone can be a leader. We all have the capacity to be a leader but not all of us should be leaders.
9. You don’t need a job you love. You fight everyday for the job you love.
10. You change from being responsible for the results to being responsible for the people responsible for the results.
11. Take care of the people. They will take care of the customer.
12. How do I help my people be at their natural best? That’s what leadership is.
13. People should be responsible for the results. Leadership is caring about the people responsible for the results.
14. Too many millennials were raised in a “failed parenting strategy.”
15. MIllennials have the lowest self-confidence of any generation in history.
16. Almost every alcoholic discovered alcohol during adolsescence.
17. Too many have an actual addiction to cell phones and social media and not learning coping mechanisms for the rest of their lives.
18. Too many kids are getting self-worth from how many Likes they get.
19. There is nothing we want more than to feel more valuable to other people.
20. During meetings there should be zero phones on zero tables because it makes us feel valued.
21. This generation has grown up in a world of instant gratification.
22. Too many millennials have applied instant gratification to their careers and relationships.
23. You cannot avoid the journey in this thing called life and your career.
24. Our current work environment is the leftovers of theories composed in the 80s and 90s.
25. Mass layoffs did not happen until the 1980s.
26. If you destroy the human spirit you destroy your own company.
27. “It’s nothing personal. It’s just business.” Business is the most personal thing there is.
28. Millennials want everything we want. They’re just smart enough to ask for it.
29. We need a higher standard of leader.
30. Let us set the examples.
31. We have the politicians we have because we got the politicians we deserve.
32. Consider the lives of human beings on a daily basis.
33. Finite Games is known players, fixed rules, and an agreed upon agenda.
34. Infinite Games is known and unknown players, rules are changeable, and keep the game playing.
35. There’s no winning the game of business. There’s no winning the game of faith. There’s no winning the game of church. The objective is to keep it alive.
36. Be obsessed with your mission and cause. Not beating your competition.
37. Other people will serve you the way you serve them.
38. The goal isn’t to always win but to outlast.
39. We have an entire section in the book store about Self Help.  There is no section called Help Others.
40. Practiced empathy results in a changed spirit.

Up next is Andy Stanley for the final session.

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