Simon Sinek argues leadership isn't about your title but your responsibility to help others rise. He started the Optimism company to teach human skills like listening and conflict resolution because organizations weren't teaching them. Leaders need the courage to keep learning.
I think that great leaders are students of leadership. And so if there's one thing I want a leader to do, it's to take themselves on. If there's one thing that I want a leader to do, it's to take themselves on and work to be the leader that they wish they had. And by the way, you don't have to have a position of rank or authority to be a leader. Leadership is the awesome responsibility to see those around us rise. And any one of us can be the leader we wish we had, but we have to become a student of leadership. The reason I started the Optimism company was for the very simple reason is we realized that the skills of leadership weren't being taught, and we wanted to offer those skills to companies so that they would teach them to their people. Things like how to listen, things like effective confrontation, things like how to resolve conflict. And so I think what companies have to do is teach people human skills. And what leaders have to do is take themselves on and have the courage to say, I have more to learn and study those human skills and study becoming a leader.
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