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Know your Why, How and What for individuals or organisations.

Reviewed in Australia on 3 February 2020

Leading with WHY has a deeper, more emotional and ultimately more influential value.
Use stories and themes to create a Why statement: To (contribution) So That (impact)
For large organisation Why statements can be nested down to individuals.
Having a valid why and that is shown and practised creates competitive advantage.

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Kevin E.

Definitely not my first choice for finding my raison d'être

Reviewed in Australia on 6 March 2020

It might be good for a large organisations but I could find little of practical value. It seems to be a summary of one of their workshops and looses a lot in the translation to the printed page.
If you are looking for this type of advice it may pay lo look elsewhere.

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Eine Kundin

Leider enttäuschend

Reviewed in Germany on 22 July 2018

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Begeistert vom TED-Talk und auch aufgrund der vielen positiven Rezensionen hatte ich mir einiges von diesem Buch versprochen. Als Einzelunternehmer hatte ich mir eine Anleitung zur Selbstreflexion erhofft. Diese Möglichkeit gibt die Systematik des Buches leider nicht. Das Entwickeln des eigenen Why ist nur mit Hilfe eines Partners möglich. Und wie diese abläuft, ist auch schnell zusammengefasst, das hätte auf 1-2 Seiten gepasst. Wie auch das begleitende Sachbuch ist der Inhalt hier sehr aufgeplustert. Wenn auch Einzelpersonen bedacht werden, ist mein Eindruck doch, dass der Autor und seine Mitarbeiter sehr stark in Konzernwelten denkt. Ich als Einzelunternehmer fühle mich davon nicht angesprochen und abgeholt. Möglicherweise mögen Leute, die mit Teams arbeiten, mehr aus diesem Buch rausholen können. Doch dieser - auch recht ausführlichen Teil - ist für mich persönlich uninteressant. Daher geht das Buch zurück.

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aysan

Not a book

Reviewed in Germany on 9 March 2018

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First of all it is NOT written by Simon Sinek, It contains notes of two motivated colleagues (fans) of Simon Sinek who know Simon Sinek as a hero who has newly discovered "Why are we here".
Some of his ideas are Ok but nothing really scientific or spectacular. Watching the trends and considering what ppl are suffering from is not really hard to harvest.
A good public speaker, a bad writer, a lost theorist.

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Justin Hikade

Das erste Buch für besser

Reviewed in Germany on 13 March 2022

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Bin eigentlich ein großer Fan vom ersten Buch das zeitlich sich eher wie ein verkaufsbuch. Vielleicht bin das nur ich ....

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Anaska Fischer

I've to find the why have I bought this book...

Reviewed in Spain on 7 December 2021

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did not like it. Not because isn't valuable but because it complicated to follow as you need people to experiment. Basically, better applying to a workshop... reading the book is weird.

Ravindra

For trainers

Reviewed in India on 28 December 2018

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Seems to be overatreching the point. Not the Aha moments you got from Simons videos

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Kanumuri P.

not that great - my personal point of view

Reviewed in India on 28 November 2020

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not that great - my personal point of view

Yusaku

Not Simple nor Inspiring…

Reviewed in Japan on 23 March 2022

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I really liked Start With Why because the idea of the book was very simple, actionable and effective. Find Your Why made the simplicity that Start With Why (which was the brilliance of the book) complex. Start With Why is inspiring but Find Your Why isn’t to me…

GenC

Deceiving

Reviewed in Canada on 18 April 2018

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Not a lot of content. Large blank margins. Large fonts. Deceiving.

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Unimpressed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2017

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Bought this hoping to be able to work through it myself. Unfortunately, the "Find your Why" method requires you to work in depth with a partner (3+ hrs they say) - and that partner shouldn't be someone too close to you (eg: spouse, family, close friends), but should be someone you trust (who is there after that?).

They repeatedly state that the method is not effective if you try to do it on your own.

The method requires a partner to actively listen, ask searching questions, take insightful notes and not be judgemental or directive. In other words, it sounds like it needs someone with coaching training.

So what's the point in buying a book that tells me how to help other people to "Find their Why", but requires me to find someone else to help me find mine?

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Pro Grammatron

Try to find your why... in the next book.

Reviewed in the United States on 27 May 2018

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If you're trying to do this by yourself, skip to another book.
All this really tells you to do is get a partner, hope they're cool with hearing your stories for 4-8 hours, and then hope they can find your why from all of the stories you just told them. It doesn't really go into depth about what to talk about or how to actually Find your why.
Like others have mentioned, I believe only the forward is actually written by Sinek.

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