Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Sticking to the recent focus on leadership, this was another book that centered around improving leadership and becoming a better and more effective leader. One of the other books from the Audible sale a few weeks back, this book was pretty good. Simon Sinek is someone who I respect and who I see expresses great morals throughout all he does.

This is laughable to me. Follow through is most important and so many people who advertise or promise certain things don’t follow through or provide results. In terms of politicians, I guess it’s just understood or accepted that they’ll only do what they’re campaigning to do if they’re elected. Is it any wonder that Congress has a lower approval rating than used car salesman? (Per data Simon included in the book, linked here).

Simon notes that it’s fun to watch politicians who say if they will be elected they will do all these things because they care about us. Yet, if they lose the election, many go on to do none of those things. The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader.

Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal title.

This makes me think of the African proverb, “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” With that in mind, it’s imperative that we have a great team if we want to build something long lasting…