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The importance of change leaders and consider Sinek’s ideas about how leaders inspire cooperation, trust, and change. Also, consider his ideas as a leader or change agent. 

Change leaders are important because they adjust the existing narratives in society. They come up with phrases or strategies that are different from the normal doing of things. These strategies are instrumental in adding value to the message they are bringing across the board. Change leaders are able to do business with persons who believe what you believe. These leaders hire personnel that believe in what they believe in. This brings tremendous change in society. Leaders inspire cooperation, trust and change by doing something for a purpose. His ideas are premised on change agent since one can modify the landscape by doing something unique from the others.

Develop a list of the top five leadership characteristics that come to mind after watching the Sinek video and explain how each of those characteristics is used to encourage action, acceptance, and agreement.

Leadership characteristics in Sinek’s video include passion, courage, persistence, purpose and self-drive. Passion entails doing something that you are interested in and gives you the moral to do it. It encourages action and activity to attain the optimum goal. Courage invokes the ability to do something without fear. As a leader, Sinek posits that courage drives one to make informed decisions (Osborne, 2020). Persistence is gives one the chance to carry on with work despite the pitfalls. This element gives a leader the chance to persevere the prevailing conditions with a better near future around. Self-drive is the capacity to work on one’s abilities without being pushed by anyone. Leaders must have self-drive quality for the success of their enterprises. Sinek emphasizes that purpose drives leaders. One must be purposeful to accomplish duties or pursue something of interest.

Describe how and why he inspires action in some and how leadership characteristics influence others.

He inspires action by giving telling examples of individuals who had little resources but because they stood by believes they were able to prosper. He notes the example of Wright brothers who invented the flight (Stedham, 2019). Moreover, he notes that beliefs drive overall events and actions in a person. Leadership characteristics drive others when one is successful in a particular field. For success to come your way, you have to interrogate how you do your activities. Apple Company as he describes uses different approach to market its products in a competitive environment. These leadership traits give other firms the opportunity to study and adopt them.

References

Caves, L. (2018). Lifelong learners influencing organizational change. Studies in Business and Economics, 13(1), 21-28.

Osborne, M. I. (2020). Change leadership when implementing innovative learning environments (Doctoral dissertation).

Stedham, Y., & Skaar, T. B. (2019). Mindfulness, trust, and leader effectiveness: a conceptual framework. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 1588.