How Great Leaders Inspire

Just watched this (thanks James!) great TED Talk from Simon Sinek. What a simple, yet inspirational and profound model for thinking about Inspiring a Shared Vision! Watch it if you get a spare 20 minutes. It’s made me think about Kaizen as a business… and how we appeal to the clients who really ‘get’ us: the innovative early-adopters. I see Simon’s key message lived out over and over again in Kaizen. Clients don’t buy WHAT we do, they buy us because they BELIEVE in the same things we do… they buy WHY we do it. And why do we do it? Leadership that Inspires, Change that Engages and Learning that Sticks. Chunk up from all those, and it’s really about Happy High Performance…. making the world of work better, happier, more successful, less wasteful. Believing that there really is a better way. Helping people to live at ‘cause’ rather than at ‘effect’. Helping people to find and create the work they were put on the planet to do. Maybe we are the ‘Apple’ of the training world? Ooh, that makes me shiver with excitement!