Simon Sinek shares a Navy SEAL story: star athletes and self-styled leaders often fail BUD/S, while those who succeed are the ones who deliberately help the person next to them, even when exhausted. The highest-performing teams win through service and support, not superior strength.
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The Navy seals are one of the highest performing organizations on the planet, and a former Navy SEAL was asked, who.
Makes it through buds, who makes it.
Through the selection process to become a seal? And he said, I can't tell you.
Who gets through, who makes it, but.
I can tell you the kind of.
People who don't make it, he said.
The star college athletes that never have been really tested to the core of their being, none.
Of them make it through, he said.
The preening leaders who like to delegate everything, none of them.
Make it through, he said.
The big tough guys that come in with huge muscles covered in tattoos, who want to prove to everyone how tough they are, none of them.
Make it through, he said.
Some of the guys that make it through are skinny.
And scrawny, he said.
Some of the guys who make it through, you will see them shivering out.
Of fear.
He said.
But every single one of them who.
Makes it through when.
They'Re emotionally exhausted, when they're physically.
Exhausted.
Some way, somehow.
They'Re able.
To dig down deep inside themselves to find the energy to help.
The person next to them.
Service. Service.
Giving to another Having their back is.
What makes the highest performing teams in the world. Not their strength and not their intelligence.
