28 Leadership Quotes From Simon Sinek – 2018 Global Leadership Summit

The following are28 Leadership Quotes From Simon Sinek – 2018 Global Leadership Summit.  Simon is a genius and gave many lessons from his upcoming book The Infinite Game.  I’ve already pre-ordered it.  You should as well.

1. There is no such thing as winning an infinite game.  You simply run out of resources or the will to continue playing.
2. There is no such thing as winning business.  There is nonsuch thing as winning life.
3. An infinite player understands sometimes you have a better product and sometimes they have a better product.
4. An infinite player knows the only competitor is ourselves.
5. 5 things you need to win an infinite game – Just Cause. Trusting Teams, A Worthy Rival, Existential Flexibility, The Courage To Lead
6. A Just Cause says we will never get there but we will die trying.
7. Does your vision have such a compelling cause others will be willing to die for it.
8. Is your Just Cause resilient?
9. Your Just Cause must be inclusive.
10. Your Just Cause must be service-oriented.  The benefit must go to someone other than the contributor.
11. The primary benefit of leadership should go to someone else other than the leader.
12. The greatest organizations have the will to serve.
13. You have to have trusting teams.
14. You can tell when someone is commission-driven.  You can feel it.
15. Leaders are responsible for creating an environment their best selves.
16. Trusting teams is an environment where people feel safe enough to raise their hands and make a mistake.
17. I can’t tell you what good leadership looks like but I can tell you what bad leadership feels like.
18. We do not trust people who follow rules.  We trust people who know when the break them.
19. A worthy rival is not a competitor.  They are someone who pushes you to improve yourself.  You are the competitor in an infinite game.
20. The value of a worthy rival is they are a pacer in the race.
21. You can have personal rivals…. You can have tactical rivals.  They do something better than you which causes you to improve your product.
22. The ideological rivals remind us what the opposite side looks like.
23. Shareholder value is like a coach who pleases the fans at the expense of his players.
24. We can’t ideological rivals but we can outlast them.
25. Your cause drives your decision.
26. The industry blew up Kodak because they refused to blow up their own company.
27. The pressures on us are overwhelming to win the short-term.
28. Others can push me harder but I compete against no one but myself.

As a bonus, Dr. Nthabiseng Lagoete spoke prior to Simon. Dr. Lagoete is the founder and CEO of Quali Health and setup his session well.  The following are 13 leadership quotes from her session:

1. A non-profit is non-sustainable.  A non-profit is not scalable.  A non-profit needs continual funding.
2. Focus on WHY you started.  The reason I started this was to provide healthcare.
3. Challenges don’t mean the dream is not working.
4. Challenges are stepping stones and learnings and something that will move you forward to a bigger space.
5. Be flexible on how you get to the goal.
6. Collaborate with those in alignment with you.
7. Be relentless and unwavering in what you want to achieve, but not how in you want to get there.
8. Don’t be surprised when you face challenges or opposition.
9. One of my biggest challenges was letting people go.
10. This is not about you.  If you are worried about what people think about you, you are not focused on the vision.
11. There is no great leader without pain.  There is no great leader without challenges.
12. The vision cannot be tied to a single person.  It must drive itself.
13. Are you doing what you set out to achieve?  If yes, everything else is just noise.

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