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Love Your Work
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Love Your Work

Simon Sinek
CreativeMornings, 2012
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Apathy in the workplace can have grave, far-reaching consequences. Ethnographer Simon Sinek offers a solution. He explains why a leader’s principal role is to nurture employee self-confidence and explores how best to do so. getAbstract recommends his thoughtful, humanistic and somewhat contrarian lecture – which includes a generous helping of US Marine Corps anecdotes – to all who manage, lead or mentor.

Summary

In the United States, some 250,000 patients die “preventable deaths” each year. These tragedies are not fodder for negligence lawsuits but rather the outcomes of “little accidents” and patchy debriefings. Why does the US health care system – with the world’s best doctors, technology and medicine – lose so many lives? Only 5% of hospital administrators are doctors. The rest are “number crunchers” who run hospitals as businesses. Thus, support for care providers is absent, and camaraderie among hospital staff is lacking.

Apathy, failed collaboration and subpar work are present in many companies. Firms often don’t support their employees...

About the Speaker

Ethnographer and author Simon Sinek teaches firms how to nurture an inspired workforce.

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