Simon: To be a leader means one thing and one thing only. It means you have followers.

That's it. You know? It's not about learning your style of leadership and how to adjust

your style to fit the situation at hand, that's management, right? Leaders only have one thing,

they have followers. A follower is somebody who raises their hand and volunteers to go

where you're going. They raise their hand and volunteer to go in the direction that

you're pointing. And so to lead others, means that you have a clear vision of a world that

does not yet exist, a world that could exist, and by articulating that cause, that vision,

that purpose, over and over and over again, it inspires people who believe what you believe,

who want to see that world built, to join, to go with you, to figure out ways, you know?

And so for me in my work, what leadership means, is articulating this world in which

the vast majority of us wake up every single day, inspired to go to work, and come home

every single day fulfilled by the work that we do. That doesn't mean we have to like every

day, you know, but we can love every day. You don't like your children every day but

you love your children every day, right? And so the more I talk about this world that does

not yet exist, because right now the world we live in, the vast majority of people, 90%-plus

don't love what they do, they may like it but they don't love it. When I talk about

this world, it inspires others who believe what I believe and want to see this world

built, join up and figure out in their own way how to advance that vision, so it becomes

real. My role is to continue to pound the pavement and put that vision out there.