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Click the Here for my Book Review on Simon Sinek's "Leaders Eat Last".

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All of the quotes listed below are taken from the book, Leaders Eat Last, written by Simon Sinek. I found them to be concepts that can be applicable to ones future life, so I thought I would share!

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  • "Chapman understood that to earn trust of people, the leaders of an organization must first treat them like people." (pg.11)
  • "When you have people who trust you, they're going to do a better job for you to ear or keep that trust." (pg.12)
  • "But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result." (pg.14)
  • "A business environment with an unbalanced focus on short-term results and money before people affects society at a large." (pg.15)
  • "Every single employee is someone's son or someone's daughter. Like a parent, a leader of a company is responsible for their precious lives." (pg.16)
  • "To treat people like family and not as mere employees. To sacrifice the numbers to save the people and not sacrifice the people to save the numbers." (pg.17)
  • "It it great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius." (pg.18)
  • "As leaders, it is our sole responsibility to protect our people and, in turn, our people will protect each other and advance the organization together. As employees or members of the group, we need to the courage to take care of each other when our leaders don't. And in doing so, we become the leaders we wish we had." (pg.18)
  • "The more we trust that the people to the left or us and the people to the right of us have our backs, the better equipped we are to face the constant threats from the outside together." (pg.22)
  • "Each point in our journey is an opportunity to feel like we're making progress towards something bigger than ourselves." (pg.43)
  • "The strength of the culture, and not its size or resources, determines an organization's ability to adapt to the times, overcome adversity and pioneer new innovations." (pg.46)
  • "Those who work hardest to help others succeed will be seen by the group as the leader or the "alpha" of the group. And being the alpha- the strong, supportive one of the group, the one willing to sacrifice time and energy so that other may gain- is a prerequisite for leadership." (pg.49)
  • "My favorite definition of love is giving someone the power to destroy us and trusting they won't use it." (pg.50)
  • "The rank of office is not what makes someone a good leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank." (pg.66)
  • "It is better that we all suffer a little so that none of us have to suffer a lot." (pg.69)
  •  "The responsibility of leaders is to teach their people the rules, train them to gain competency and build their confidence." (pg.75)
  • "We don't trust rules, we trust people." (pg.75)
  • "The responsibility of a leader is to provide cover from above for their people who are working below." (pg.75)
  • "And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader's vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way." (pg.107)
  • "And that's what the best leaders do. They share what they know, ask knowledgable people for help performing their duties and make introductions to create new relationships within their networks." (pg.145)
  • "The goal of a leader is to give no orders. Leaders are to provide direction and intent and allow others to figure out what to do and how to get there." (pg.146)
  • "Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust. Leadership comes from telling us not what we want to hear, but rather what we need to hear. To be a true leader, to engender deep trust and loyalty, starts with telling the truth." (pg.150)
  • "It's not a culture that inspires people to give their blood, sweat and tears to the company, it's leaders or each other." (pg.170)
  • "Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first." (pg.177)
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