Name of Book:- Start with Why
Author: - Simon Sinek
No of Chapters: - 14
Number of Pages: - 225
Single Sentence description of Book: - How Great Companies
and Great Leaders Inspire
What this book is about: - The book provides
an excellent reasoning behind why some people inspire and great companies keep
on sustaining the rough patch and growing. The book provides a logical explanation
of whole process of doing a certain thing. The book starts with why the concept
of why is important for any work or process. It further extends the theory by explaining
the Golden circle for any work which is why followed by how and what needs to
be done. It explains the importance of each step of Golden circle in any work.
It explained the concept of why getting fuzzy of a growing company, which can
lead to the downfall of that company.
Examples to support the concept of
Why :- It took example of why Wright
Brothers succeeded in achieving first flight over Samuel Pierpont Langley
despite having very less resources with them. It has taken the example of Apple who exists
on concept of changing the status quo. It also explains the concept by taking examples
of Harley Davidson and South West Airlines to explain the concept of Why.
Good Points about
book: - Some of the good points about the
book are as follows: -
1. The book clearly
explains the importance of inspiration over Manipulation in any business, as
Manipulation can provide us short term results whereas inspiration gives us long
term results.
2. This book explains the importance of
trust in creation of inspiration among the followers.
3. The books givens a valuable
insight towards the clarity of why with discipline of how and consistency of
what needs to be done in any process.
4. The book provides a good explanation
of importance of communication of why downstream in an organisation
A Few special Insights: - Few interesting
things that I gained from book
1. It shows the
importance of why in our day to day work and explains why it is important for
long term gains.
2. It explains why the
companies lose their foresight of why when they grow big.
Overall review: - It is a unique book which explains the purpose of doing any work in life and as well as in organization. It provides a whole new perspective of doing things. It is good read for anyone to know the importance of why in their life.
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