Simon Sinek Quotes

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

I believe in delegating power.

In Adrenaline Mob, I'm not the leader, but I'm on the board of directors, and that's OK. I'm not stressing out over every detail. I'm sharing the load.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

Leadership is influence.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

When you're leading, don't talk.

I like being a leader in real life.

You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.