Simon Sinek’s Post

Entrepreneurship and Management are so different that few people can combine these two specialties. Finding someone who knows how to get things done means finding a partner CEO or acquiring C-level talents. And for most entrepreneurs, it seems impossible because they don't have the mindset of a professional manager. Therefore, there is a tiny percentage of success in startups. I consider that if it's hard to teach an entrepreneur to manage, it's possible to teach an efficient mindset. This will empower the person with the wild imagination to attract the person who knows how to get things done.

The biggest problem with this model is that ideas are really nothing but talk until another individual initiates the action but the doers never get remembered. It’s always the originator of the ideas. Think about Steve Jobs. Brilliant idea person but not a good engineer but no one thinks about Steve Wozniak when they think of Apple. Bill Gates did the same with Microsoft. My point is that society credits the originator of ideas more often as the visionaries while those who manifest those ideas are often forgotten so where is the incentive for the doers to want to collaborate with those who are all too happy to typically take all the credit?

If only it were this simple. The reality is more complex and often a catch-22. The Innovator sees the big picture and, when mature, knows how to adapt to achieve it. Their greatest obstacle is limited time and the inability to do everything themselves. The Integrator, focused on step-by-step processes, often finds the big picture unrealistic. They must fully trust the Innovator, or the partnership will fail. As an Innovator, my mission is to lead from behind, sacrificing the most until the team sees what I see. In my opinion, the greatest way to influence others is by serving unselfishly.

I LOVE THIS: You don’t have to be the whole show. You have to find the people that shine where you do not. That is how you build and achieve greatness. You find balance in your team and you leverage it! This requires a ton of honesty with yourself to admit where you need support. This isn’t weakness- IT IS STRENGTH Acknowledge it, address it, and surround yourself with people that make you better and enhance your shine! Shine on!

Very true. I believe we can learn to use all the different aspects of our brain and practice trying to connect the strongest parts with the weakest parts. Eventually your brain will get that you need it to employ different skills and will start to build the neurological connectors. A ''natural'' ideas person will resist the execution mode because it's uncomfortable and frustrating to them - but it's doable. Force of will goes a long way in crunching the mechanics of change. It's actually harder for a natural ''executor'' to become an ideas person. Society doesn't support that path as much as the execution path so they have fewer tools to learn how to expand their spontaneous creativity.

I find it difficult to find someone that can get shit done, so I aspire to become that on top of being the person with the imagination, but this is hard when surrounded by people that have no imagination and don't ever get anything done outside of their 9to5. Too many people are too comfortable following the path that has been laid out for them, as consumers rather than daring to step out on a limb and create something new.

I love this so much.

Yes. So good. And, according to Patrick Lencioni's "The 6 Types of Working Genius," usually a third person in the middle to discern which wild imaginative ideas are actually plausible, productive, and aligned with the goals of the company. I have a million ideas I think are good ones and when I work with someone who just takes it and runs with it, I feel empowered. But the end result isn't always as expected. We need that third person, the discerner, to sift through and identify the potential problems. https://www.workinggenius.com/

I used to be the one with the wild imagination. Then I went to college and became the person who knows how to get things done. Unfortunately that connection to coming up with new ideas that make money is a bit weak. However, all I need is someones spark of inspiration and then I can fuel their idea and passion with everything I've learned. I've become the problem solved, a fixer if you'd prefer.

We don't all know / enjoy / successfully execute the same things. There's a unique joy in creating this kind of collaboration and symbiosis with another person. There's another unique joy when we get to embody both sides of the collaboration within ourselves. Imagination and practical production are a combination for greatness either way.