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:

When our leaders reveal their gaps in knowledge and missteps, not only are we more willing to help, but we too are more willing to share when we make mistakes or when things go wrong.

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Leaders Eat Last:

If people only comply, we can’t expect people to take responsibility for their actions.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that’s obedience. Responsibility is doing what’s right.

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Leaders Eat Last:

The more energy is transferred from the top… to those who are actually doing the job… the more powerful the organization and the more powerful the leader.

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Leaders Eat Last:

If we suspect our leaders are bending the truth to favor their own interests, then our subconscious mind prefers we don’t climb into a foxhole with them.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Leadership comes from telling us not what we want to hear, but rather what we need to hear.

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Leaders Eat Last:

To be a true leader, to engender deep trust and loyalty, starts with telling the truth.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Trust evolves once we have enough evidence to satisfy our brain that a person or an organization is, indeed, an honest broker.

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Leaders Eat Last:

We need to know that the information we are given by others and especially our leaders, good or bad, is the truth. We need to know that when someone says something, they mean it.

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Leaders Eat Last:

Integrity is not about being honest when we agree with each other; it is also about being honest when we disagree or, even more important, when we make mistakes or missteps.

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