Simon Sinek shares three leadership practices: find worthy rivals whose strengths expose your gaps, start a voluntary book club for cheap team training, and lead the way you wish someone had led you.
Can you share three tangible takeaways that people can use right away?
Well, like we said, I want to go back to worthy rival. That is the easiest one of all the infinite minded practices to implement. Which is the other leaders, sometimes in your own team, the other people in your own team. Other companies that make you slightly uncomfortable or slightly angry when their name comes up, you know, what is their strength, what is something they do that that highlights a weakness that you can focus on, that one's really easy and tangible to do. I think other things is start a book club. A lot of companies tell me they can't afford or they don't have time to implement leadership training. And I always say, nonsense, you can afford to start a book club. Pick a book that you want to read.
Don't make it mandatory. Make it voluntary that every Friday we're going to review a chapter or two and talk about it over lunch or whatever, and that's called leadership training. And you can pick books that highlight skills that you want to teach, whether it's purpose or whether it's listening or whatever it is. But please, please, please start some sort of leadership training. And the third one is take yourself on, which is try to be the leader you wish you had. You know, we can't ask our people to do things if we're not willing to do them ourselves. Lead by example.
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