Leadership Is a Learned Skill | Simon Sinek

I think the concept of leadership is one of the most misunderstood concepts in business, quite frankly. We think about leadership as a rank or position, like, "I'm in leadership." The question is, are you a leader? Leadership is the awesome responsibility to see those around us rise. It is a skill set that needs to be learned and practiced. Most of us, the way we have achieved our leadership position or rank is because we were good at the job. The problem is that's not your job anymore. You know, when we're super junior, the organizations we work for give us tons of training how to do our jobs. Some of us go to college in how to do our job. If you're an architect, you have to go to school to learn how to be an architect. And if you're really good at your job, they'll promote you until you reach a position where you're now responsible for the people who do the job you used to do. But they don't teach us how to do that. And so the reason we get managers and not leaders is because we don't get taught how to do our new job called leadership.