Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek

Narrated by Simon Sinek

Unabridged — 7 hours, 18 minutes

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek

Narrated by Simon Sinek

Unabridged — 7 hours, 18 minutes

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Overview

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Sometimes you just need to ask why. That's what this book instills in you—a ceaseless curiosity to know why something works, why someone succeeds, why a leader is elected. Learn how to bring the why into your life!

The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of Leaders Eat Last and Together is Better.

In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who've watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY—the third most popular TED video of all time.

Sinek starts with a fundamental question: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?

People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it.

Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.


Editorial Reviews

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Start with Why is one of the most useful and powerful books I have read in years. Simple and elegant, it shows us how leaders should lead.”
-WILLIAM URY, coauthor of Getting to Yes
 
Start with Why fanned the flames inside me. This book can lead you to levels of excellence you never considered attainable.”
-GENERAL CHUCK HORNER, air boss, Desert Storm
 
“Each story will force you to see things from an entirely different perspective. A perspective that is nothing short of the truth.”
-MOKHTAR LAMANI, former ambassador, special envoy to Iraq

MARCH 2012 - AudioFile

The author passionately talks about trends, fads, and business leadership while continually telling the listener to ask questions. For example, what is leadership, and why do we follow trends? Sinek’s New England accent is most audible when he’s excited, but the volume of his voice drops at the end of sentences. Amid his questions, Sinek tells stories about specific companies, particularly Apple and Colgate. Inspirational and engaging, this audiobook also explores the sense of belonging that grows out of the loyalty and trust engendered by strong companies and leaders. On the other hand, those looking for practical advice, rather than theory, won’t find it here. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID: 2940172167126
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Publication date: 09/05/2017
Edition description: Unabridged
Sales rank: 286,700

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