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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 152: The Truth About Quiet Quitting: Simon Sinek

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, bestselling author and business leadership speaker, Simon Sinek discusses quiet quitting and the importance of expectation management when it comes to work. Simon says that both employers and employees need to be more open and honest about what they want from their professional relationship. For instance, he says that Amazon is very open that it is a very tough and competitive culture, so people can choose whether they want to work in that sort of environment. Equally, employees need to be honest about how they want work to fit into their life, do they want an easy casual job or do they want to push hard and be ambitious. Simon believes we need to treat work like a conversation, previously it has been treated like a speech where workers were told what they were going to do, but now people can ask, why does work have to be that way? Listen to the full episode here - Apple- https://g2ul0.app.link/nv4jKFbt9Hb Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link/hZEYgPgt9Hb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Simon: https://simonsinek.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.6

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0:16.0

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0:19.7

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0:34.4

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0:38.7

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0:44.8

There's this concept of quiet quitting where people are coming to work and they're just

0:51.2

doing the minimum, doing their hours, doing their job, not volunteering or raising their hands are going and that's it.

0:58.0

And it raises the question, is that bad? You know? And I'm a great believer that it's all about

1:05.6

expectation management, you know? Like I get asked about Amazon a lot, like do I

1:10.8

disagree with how Amazon is run? And my answer is always the same, which is they never lied.

1:15.0

They didn't tell you it's a magical place to work where it's all Kumbaya and we all like, you know, we all hang out with you know,

1:21.0

you know, unicorns every day. It really amazing they're very open about it that it's very

1:26.9

very aggressive and very rough and very competitive and even the people who love it only

1:31.7

last two years because they burn out.

1:34.9

And so because they don't lie, you know what you're going to get if you go work there.

1:38.8

And if you like that kind of culture, then go work there.

1:41.7

If you don't like that kind of culture, then don't work there. But don't

1:44.6

take the job and then say, I didn't know, because you did. Like Apple, you know, people say, well,

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