Simon Sinek

That's why we get micromanagers.

That's why we get toxicity.

It's not because they're bad people.

It's because they don't know what they're doing.

And they're making it up as they go along.

And those lucky times that we get to work for a great leader, well, they were lucky that they probably had a great leader before them.

Or they learned it somewhere else.

Or maybe they had a terrible leader and they committed to do the total opposite of everything.

The point is they learned it.

Well, we have to teach leadership so that leaders can create environments in which all of us can work to our natural best.

We teach leadership as if it were a finite game.

People start business with the goal of winning or being number one.

And that's a problem because that's impossible.

Let me give you a hypothetical example to make my point.

Two CEOs, the first CEO says, our number one priority is growth.

And of course, our people are important because if we take care of our people, we will meet and exceed our financial goals.

Second CEO says, our number one priority is our people.

And if we take care of our people, we will always meet and exceed our financial goals.

Which one would you rather work for?

I mean, it's obvious, right?