I watched a TED talk by speaker Simon Sinek called, “How great leaders inspire action.” I must say, this talk was actually very quite interesting. So he presented a model called the “Golden Circle Model” for how leaders inspire action. And so this model has three separate circles organized by WHY, HOW, and WHAT and apparently those three components sorts out how any organization or any person function at its highest potential. Also, according to him this model is the pattern that all leaders and organizations follow; WHAT they want to do, most know HOW they aim to do it but few are don’t know the WHY they want to do what they do. He explains this by giving an example and using Martin Luther King. He says that what Dr. Martin Luther King believed was that there were two types of laws in this world: those that were made by a higher authority, and those that were made by men. So MLK had to constantly speak about what he believed in until it resonated with the others and that is how he was able to get thousands of people to come here him speak because they could link themselves with what he believed in.

So basically it is by inspiring others that leaders are able to their followers to take action and that this the fine line between leaders and those who lead; leaders are those who have an authoritative status while those who lead inspire. So we tend to follow a leader not because we have to, but because we want to. So to be able to inspire those who lead we need to figure our WHY.