How Leaders Inspire Action

Simon Sinek talked about this concept of "the Golden Circle", and why companies like apple or men like Martin Luther King Jr. stand our from the crowd as excellent. Why is it that they succeeded where others failed?

The major point that Sinek hit on over and over again was that "People won't buy/buy into what they do, they buy why you do it." If you are trying to do some thing just because you want fame, riches, etc no one will be interested in you, your work, or your cause. What ever cause we have and try to accomplish needs to be rooted into some sort of belief. This ties into our work at the Humanities Student Council because we need to know why we are working towards the goals that we are trying to accomplish in order for any of them to succeed. If we want people to follow, we need to inspire. This sounds like a lofty calling especially for a student council, I know. But it's something we need to figure out how to do in order to lead and succeed.

"The majority will not try something unless someone else tries it first." They do these things for themselves, because they wanted to be first. People do things that prove what they believe. To be a leader, we can't be afraid to be innovators. Trying something first is scary. No doubt about that. But as leaders we have to take risks, safe risks, planned risks, but risks nonetheless.