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Simon Sinek describes in his book "Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action" how leaders and companies should work as a series of circles, i.e. "The Golden Circle" - the why, how, and what. This idea explains why organizations and leaders inspire the others. Everybody knows what they do, some know how they do it, very few people know why they do what they do. The way we communicate, think and act is very easy: we go from the clear things we know to the more fuzzy ones. T...
Simon Sinek presents a compelling vision of how companies, organizations, and individuals can achieve success. His simple message? Start with why. Which is to say the guiding principle of our endeavors should be based not on what we do or how we do it, but rather on why we do it. According to Sinek, those agencies that can effectively articulate their "why" (or purpose) are most likely to develop loyal followers and long term success.Sounds great Jeff, so why just two stars? Well, there's a nu
Start with Why is one of my all time favorite Ted Talks. This book is a longer version of the same concept. For the first few chapters, I did not feel that I was really getting any new information. However, the latter portion of the book went in to more specific examples of how great leaders have changed the face of their companies by focusing on Why.
Have you ever noticed that books written for entrepreneurs or other tech-bros love to write about Shackleton? Am I the only one who thinks the dude put himself and his crew in a pickle and then gets lauded for getting them out of the self-imposed pickle? Anyway, they also love to talk about the Wright brothers and Steve Jobs. The thing with these books is that they can't prove that these people succeeded because they had a WHY. In fact, I've seen those stories used to prove a whole bunch of diff...
Simon Sinek gave a really great TED Talk that summarizes the argument of this book: when we get caught up in the details of HOW and WHAT we are working on, it is very easy to forget WHY we are doing it. For example, at the turn of the 20th century, the Wright brothers were trying to build something that would fly with no support and very little money of their own. Meanwhile, Samuel Pierpont Langley was given full government subsidy to solve the problem of flight. But the Wright brothers got thei...
Me: “I’ll take ‘Books That Should Have Been Long Articles Instead of Books’ for $500, please, Alex.”Alex Trebek: “This book takes hundreds of pages, including at least 4,398 references to how great Apple is, to make a fairly simple (albeit important) point, and was likely written by someone from the Department of Redundancy Department.”Me: “What is ‘Start With Why’?”The idea at the core of this book—that successful companies can clearly articulate WHY they are in business (beyond making profit)
Loy Machedo’s Book Review – Start With Why by Simon SinekTED Talks is an incredible platform for someone to either make it or break it. And in the case of Simon Sinek, the 5 Million plus views he received on his talk not only must have catapulted him to the ‘Management Guru’ status, it also ensured his book became a New York Time Best Seller.But here let me surprise you – The book is Great and then the Author & Book Publisher Mess it up badly.Lets start with the fundamentals.What made Simon Sine...
I hated this book.It is overly simplistic, repetitive, has little merit into the real world and was annoying to read. This book could have said everything in 20 pages but instead dragged it out to 200. the examples (in my opinion the only part of the book actually worth reading) are too far and between to make up for the fact that the book is just annoying and repetitive. WHAT WHY HOW, these 3 words were capitalized almost every time they were used and placed in every non example part of the boo...
I am only on page 90 and this book is driving me nuts. I usually don't review a book or make a comment before I have finished reading it but I have to get this off of my chest so I can power through the rest. First of all, I agree 100% with Sinek in that a company has to have an established vision and mission in which the company culture hinges upon with a unified purpose. I believe that it is important to hold yourself and your company to an ethical standard. However, beyond that I think Sinek
i watched simon sinek’s tedtalk YEARS ago, and i liked it. it’s easy, simple, and provides food for thought.because it IS handy to remind people not to forget about their initial vision and their overarching goal while they get caught up with all the shit they need to get together to run a business, a household, or their own life. it’s clever to START with a functional specification of what you want to achieve rather than cook up an exact product right off the bat.BUT… his tedtalk makes for a po...
TL;DR The author wants us to communicate from the inside of the golden circle, not from the outside of it. He believes that people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. "People don’t do business with everyone who has what they need. They do business with people who believe in the same thing they believe in."more @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Eui...
Using selective facts or analogies to suit an assertion, gratuitous statements often contradicting other assertions, and selective use of parts of a bigger story while conveniently overlooking others in the same context are among the reasons why I found this book to be of no value in leadership development. The author works backwards in that he has a belief in his view of what makes great leaders and selects biased or incomplete data or uses unsubstantiated hyperbole to set about making the case...
Great TED Talk, but not enough to carry a book. The author utters the same platitudes over and over. The main concept is that persuasive argument starts with connection, then emotions, then facts. This goes back to Aristotle and is nothing new. The plus-value here would come from present real world illustrations, but this is where he trips himself up in self-contradictions. For example, Apple Inc. is great because they are so original, i.e. they don't just copy and refine, they truly "innovate."...
DON'T WASTE TIME READING THIS. WATCH THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE INSTEAD. I was lured by this book because of Sinek's TED video. Great video and idea, and I should have stopped there. I feel that the book can be cut by 75% without losing its message. What's really annoying is the overuse of Apple as a example. Like, really? There are other examples in the book, the massive use of Apple story is just irritating. Borrow the book and skim through it. But it is not worth buying. Watch the TED video for fre...
I have watched and liked Simon Sinek’s TED talk on the subject and also his talk on the millennial generation (available on youtube), both of which are excellent. This is a nice book – the premise is vital and critical, and the coverage is unambiguous to reinforce the point. That said, the examples repeat and subsequent chapters after the initial ones incrementally introduce only little further depth to the concept. Purpose is central, and a strong ‘Why?’ statement when aligned to the company’s
Reviewing a book before completing it isn't a great idea usually, but I completed only 30% of the book and it's just too much fluff. The idea is simple but explanations are redundant. Simon's Ted Talk was great but I don't think it's enough content for a book. He doesn't support his theories with enough evidence. Sometimes, I could think of the counter examples very easily. That made me doubt the author's credibility. And the concept of Golden Ratio that he introduced to give legitimacy to his c...
One good point, offered with endless repetition, extreme oversimplification, and annoying inconsistencies, in a bad writing style.
4.75 ⭐GENRE - NON FICTION/SELF HELP.This is another book Suggested to me by my good ol friend Mr. Aditya Salvi, we were having a discussion about business & Aditya pointed out this book saying it's a great book to read for people interested in Business to which one of my other friend replied "Start with Why" the title itself tells you what will be inside the book and actually i also had the same kind of perception about this book but my mind always kept telling that there something more in this
Interesting ideas, poorly presented, with 90% of examples being white men in tech. Try harder.
If you work in the corporate sector, it is almost inevitable that you will be invited to a corporate re-branding meeting.At first this sounds like fun, creative; you think it may do with the logo, or maybe color schemes. You are surprised, though, when you go to the first meeting and encounter a team hired to do more than a logo, but to define the company's purpose. There are a series of meetings, in which the rebranding team tells you what you should value, interviews your customers to show you...