Simon Sinek
Author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
About the Author
Simon Sinek is a trained ethnographer. He teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. He is the author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action and Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't. He is also an adjunct staff member of the show more RAND Corporation, a think tank. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Sinek, TEDx Maastricht 2011 By Startwithwhy - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15986453
Works by Simon Sinek
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team (2017) 511 copies, 7 reviews
3 books collection set: Find your why, start with why, and 7 habits of highly effective people (2018) 3 copies
Start with Why Leadership resource 3 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1973-10-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and… by Simon Sinek
Good read. Very interesting concepts on human psychology - especially tribal behaviors of humans during our initial evolution and how it relates to today's corporate world. Also nice insights on some of the key chemicals in us that drive/discourage certain behaviors in us in both individual and group settings...
An important work to re-orient ourselves to long-term thinking versus the usual short-term focus.
Critical and highly recommended reading for all of us, but especially for those involved in decision-making.
Critical and highly recommended reading for all of us, but especially for those involved in decision-making.
https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=The_Infinite_Game
The JC is indebted to TED-talker extraordinaire Simon Sinek for the TED talk which introduced him to James P. Carse’s obscure but brilliant book Finite and Infinite Games, which provides the basic idea for this, Sinek’s take on the subject.
And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering: if you just set Sinek’s book aside — it is one, in Dorothy Parker’s terms, to be thrown aside with great force — and immerse yourself in Carse’s magnificent original you will be far, far better served.
To be sure, Carse demands much, much more work (it’s a short book, but boy is it dense) but it is so worth it.… (more)
The JC is indebted to TED-talker extraordinaire Simon Sinek for the TED talk which introduced him to James P. Carse’s obscure but brilliant book Finite and Infinite Games, which provides the basic idea for this, Sinek’s take on the subject.
And here let me pause this review, and say you can save yourself the ten minutes it will take to read it and the handful of hours you may waste slogging through Sinek’s wittering: if you just set Sinek’s book aside — it is one, in Dorothy Parker’s terms, to be thrown aside with great force — and immerse yourself in Carse’s magnificent original you will be far, far better served.
To be sure, Carse demands much, much more work (it’s a short book, but boy is it dense) but it is so worth it.… (more)
Simon Sinek is a fantastic storyteller albeit a bit repetitive. The book is a little dated in terms of the some of the stories but the wisdom provided is very valid.
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