# How I Built Resilience: Live with Simon Sinek

- Show: [How I Built This](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this)
- Published: 2020-04-23
- Length: 19m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek

## Summary

Simon Sinek, author of 'Start with Why' and 'The Infinite Game', explains the distinction between finite games, which have winners and losers, and infinite games, where the objective is to perpetuate the game. He outlines five principles for business leaders, including advancing a just cause, building trusting teams, and studying worthy rivals rather than competitors. Sinek emphasizes the need for existential flexibility, citing a Chicago pizzeria that pivoted to making face masks during the pandemic, and argues for leading with courage by rejecting shareholder supremacy in favor of serving employees and customers.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=0) Introduction: Simon Sinek and the Infinite Game
- [1:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=63) Finite vs. Infinite Games and Just Cause
- [3:34](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=214) Building Trusting Teams and Studying Rivals
- [5:42](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=342) Existential Flexibility and Pivoting Business Models
- [7:44](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=464) Finding Your Why and Leading the Leaders
- [12:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=724) Rejecting Shareholder Supremacy and Leading by Example
- [15:49](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-04-23-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-simon-sinek#t=949) Advice for Graduates and the Value of Service

## Topics

- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [Growth, exits & acquisitions](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/growth-exits-and-acquisitions)
- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- Start with Why (product)
- The Infinite Game (product)
- Impossible Foods (company)
- U.S. Bank (company)

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