Simon Sinek

And yet, when we listen to the language of too many leaders, they talk about being number one, being the best, and beating their competition.

Based on what?

There's no agreed upon objectives.

There's no agreed upon timeframes.

And so what ends up happening is you have people building organizations and leading with a finite mindset, playing to win in a game where there's no such thing as winning.

Leadership is not about being in charge.

It's about taking care of those in our charge.

And the very responsibility of a leader is not to drive performance.

Leaders are not responsible for the results.

Leaders are responsible for the people who are responsible for the results.

And the problem is, is we don't teach people how to lead.

When you're very, very junior, we give people tons of training how to do their jobs.

Some people get advanced degrees how to do their jobs so that they'll be good at them.

And if you're really good at your job, we'll promote you.

And eventually you get promoted to a position where you're now responsible for the people who do the job you used to do, and we don't teach you how to do that.

So how can we expect people to be good at their jobs if we don't train them how to do it?

Like, would you go see a doctor that didn't go to medical school?

No.

So why would we work for a leader who has no training in being a leader?

That's why we get managers.