Simon Sinek
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5,256 appearances
15 recordings
11 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Jun
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Because what's happening, I think, and this goes to your question,
It's systems theory, which was the fifth of the core, the top when we were talking about the five top leadership skills.
If you are not engaged deeply in systems thinking right now, I don't think you can play to win.
And if you were a systems thinker and you got away from it, you need to revisit the scholarship on systems thinking.
But one of the biggest things I think that helps with systems thinking is this iceberg model of problem identification, that above the water we see a problem, and this is where as leaders we attack.
We attack what we see.
but underneath the iceberg are several other layers.
One is behavior, the next one is
structures and systems, the deeper you go for change, the more leverage and lasting and meaningful the change.
The bottom layer is mental models.
What is the mental model from which people work?
And a mental model, when I go in and I'm talking to a CEO about a potential transformation, and we go through this assessment, and the second I hear that a mental model has to change...
in a collective, in a group of people, I'm like, this is going to take three years.
It's going to be very difficult transformation because a mental model is the way we make sense of the world.
And it's how we assess our value in a corporation or any organization.
To change mental models is absolutely, to excavate them to begin with is hard, but then to change them is very hard.
And I'll tell you that, I mean, you cannot predict it.
But most people can't let go of that.
They can't let go of it.
It's a failed mental model.
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