Moment 154: The Truth About Quiet Quitting: Simon Sinek

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The things kids do, eh? Sitting too close to the TV, dodging homework, reading with one
0:04.7	eyes shut like a pirate. But those are signs that perhaps you should pop into Spexavers and get their eyes
0:09.4	tested. Book your kids an appointment at Spexavers today for a free eye test and free glasses.
0:15.0	Sadly there's nothing we can do about the nose picking, losing just one sock, saying why,
0:20.0	saying why again and again.
0:22.0	Free kids glasses with under 16th NHS optical voucher,
0:25.0	kids 65 pounds and teens 90 pound glasses only.
0:28.1	See online are in store for details.
0:30.0	There's this concept of quiet quitting where people are coming to work and they're just doing the minimum, doing their hours, doing their job, not volunteering or raising their hands or going and that's it.
0:42.0	And it raises. volunteering or raising their hands are going, and that's it.
0:42.7	And it raises the question, is that bad?
0:46.9	You know?
0:47.9	And I'm a great believer that it's all about expectation management,
0:52.2	you know?
0:53.0	Like I get asked about Amazon a lot, like do I disagree with how Amazon is run?
0:57.4	And my answer is always the same, which is they never lied.
1:00.5	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,
1:06.7	unicorns every day, it's really amazing. They're very open about it, that it's's very very aggressive and very rough and very
1:13.9	competitive and even the people who love it only last two years because they burn
1:18.1	out and so because they don't lie you know what you're going to get if you go work there.
1:24.0	And if you like that kind of culture, then go work there.
1:26.8	If you don't like that kind of culture, then don't work there.
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