Book Titles

Leaders Eat Last
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t

By Simon Sinek

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-59184-801-1
Categories: Employees, Leadership, Management

264 Quotes Found

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Leaders Eat Last:

If certain conditions are met and the people inside an organization feel safe among each other, they will work together to achieve things none of them could have ever achieved alone.

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Leaders Eat Last:

In our modern world, advancing our careers and trying to find happiness and fulfillment are the definition of success.

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Leaders Eat Last:

The cultural norms of the majority of companies and organizations today actually work against our natural biological inclinations. This means that happy, inspired and fulfilled employees are the exception rather than the rule.

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Leaders Eat Last:

A business environment with an unbalanced focus on short-term results and money before people affects society at large.

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Leaders Eat Last:

When we struggle to find happiness or a sense of belonging at work, we take that struggle home.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Those who have an opportunity to work in organizations that treat them like human beings to be protected rather than a resource to be exploited come home at the end of the day with an intense feeling of fulfillment and gratitude.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Leaders of organizations who create a working environment better suited for how we are designed do not sacrifice excellence or performance simply because they put people first. Quite the contrary.

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Leaders Eat Last:

To see money as subordinate to people and not the other way around is fundamental to creating a culture in which the people naturally pull together to advance the business.

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Leaders Eat Last:

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

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Leaders Eat Last:

There is no value in building organizations that compound that danger by adding more threats from the inside.

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