Leadership Redefined: Helping Others Rise | Simon Sinek — Transcript

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1. 0:00my favorite addition of definition of
2. 0:01leadership which is not disimilar to
3. 0:04yours which is the awesome
4. 0:05responsibility to see those around you
5. 0:08Rise um and if you ask yourself what
6. 0:11what does that entail rank is not the
7. 0:14thing that makes you a leader um it
8. 0:16allows you to do it more efficiently but
9. 0:18you can see the person next to you rise
10. 0:21that makes you the leader in that team
11. 0:24um uh the ability to become a good
12. 0:27leader and and and and do the things
13. 0:29that you're talking about quite frankly
14. 0:31is the the need for human skills and we
15. 0:35underappreciate uh uh the the learning
16. 0:38and education of human skills things
17. 0:41like active listening things like how to
18. 0:44resolve conflict peacefully things like
19. 0:48um out of an effective confrontation
20. 0:50like you have to give somebody some like
21. 0:52you you have to like tell somebody this
22. 0:55is not working for me how do you do that
23. 0:56in a way that they'll hear you how to
24. 0:58give and receive feedback and we don't
25. 1:00we don't learn these things so if you
26. 1:02join a Company the company will give you
27. 1:04tons of Education how to sell the
28. 1:06product what the portfolio looks like
29. 1:08how to sell you know all of these things
30. 1:11they don't teach us human skills as we
31. 1:12make our way through the ranks we get
32. 1:14promoted because we're good at our jobs
33. 1:17but but being good at your job is not
34. 1:18what makes you a good leader being a
35. 1:20good leader is what makes you a good
36. 1:21leader being good at human skills is
37. 1:23what makes you a good leader and all the
38. 1:24best leaders I've ever met um in every
39. 1:27industry who have achieved things that
40. 1:30they could say to me I think I know what
41. 1:31I'm doing um every single one of them uh
42. 1:35consider themselves a student of
43. 1:36leadership none of them think of
44. 1:39themselves as expert leaders they
45. 1:40continue to read books read articles
46. 1:42watch videos have conversations yeah um
47. 1:46and and not only is that
48. 1:49humble um but it it makes them really
49. 1:52good at what they do because they're
50. 1:53constantly learning like would you would
51. 1:54you want to see a doctor who has never
52. 1:57attended a conference or read an article
53. 1:59since they got their medical
54. 2:01degree no you want a Doctor Who's
55. 2:03completely up to dat on all the new
56. 2:05stuff and is constantly learning right
57. 2:08they're qualified to be the doctor they
58. 2:09got the medical degree that's not good
59. 2:11enough it's the same for leaders it's a
60. 2:13lifelong leadership uh it's a lifelong
61. 2:15education to be good at uh to be a good
62. 2:18leader