Tag: Start With Why
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Nested WHYs in great organizations – Find Your Why
Lowest Level of organization is an employee – Individual WHY
Employee belongs to department – Each department has specific WHY
Each department rolls up to the entire organization – Organization WHY
Individual WHY rolls up to department WHY & Organization WHY
Department WHY rolls up to organization WHY
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The journey of WHY Discovery for individuals – Lessons learnt from “Find Your Why”
Find Your Why from Simon Sinek , David Mead and Peter Docker is the follow up book to Start With Why by Simon Sinek.
The Why Discovery for individuals is something I found simply fascinating.
The distance the authors have gone in explaining the scientific approach to discovering WHY is simply awesome.
An individual who needs to discovery his/her WHY needs to first find a friend or a trustworthy person who would help with the discovery.Such a person should be chosen very judiciously.The person needs to be a very good listener and should not have prejudiced views.Eagerness and inquisitiveness in helping a friend discover WHY is also a very important criteria.
After the facilitator is chosen the following are the three steps:
- Gather stories about the life of the person – These stories should have some special place in the life of the person.
- Find out patterns – From the facts noted from the stories , try to find out meaning and connect the dots.
- Draft a WHY – Based on the above analysis , try to draft a WHY in the following format:
TO___________________(contribution) SO THAT_____________________(impact)
The draft WHY is in no means going to be 100% perfect at the first attempt and this needs to be refined going forward.All this exercise would do is to set a foundation for creation of a WHY.
For more details I would sincerely encourage readers to go through the book FIND YOU WHY.Believe me it would an absolutely unbelievable experience.
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Construct of a “WHY” – Lessons learnt from FIND YOUR WHY
We have all come across concepts of WHY , Golden circle , Circle of Safety by Simon Sinek in his books Start with Why as well as Leaders Eat Last.
The book Find Your Why goes one step further in trying to help individuals as well as tribes find their own WHY.
To summarize the construct of a WHY would look like:
TO_________________________________________________SO THAT________________________________________
The First dash after TO is for contribution and the one after SO THAT is for impact.
The contribution relates to something which is not selfish but out of which others around us get benefitted as well.The impact is not in material or monetary terms but the service is does to society to enrich our lives in turn and which in turn would give us a feeling of fulfillment.
There can be ONE and only ONE why for individuals or groups and if we lead our life around the WHY our lives would become much more meaningful and enriching.
For more details I would encourage readers to go through the book FIND YOUR WHY.It is a fascinating book and is sure to enlighten the lives of individuals as well as groups.
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Nested WHYs in organizations and their meaning – Learnings from “Find Your Why”
Find You Why by Simon Sinek , David Mead , Peter Docker is the second step to Start With Why by Simon Sinek.
This is an awesome book wherein the authors have carved out the steps to do self as well as tribe(group) WHY discovery.
Among myriad amazing concepts outlines in the book the one that I particularly liked and could relate to was the concept of WHY of an organization and its relation to a TREE.
Like a tree has roots and the trunk as its foundation , every organization should have a foundational WHY which would be the meaning as to why the organization exists.This should be the superset of all other WHYs existing inside the organization.
Like a tree has branches , so does an organization have various departments.Each department would have individual WHYs which in some way or the other should be derived out of the organizational WHY else the departments would not in line with the organization goal.
Finally like we have nests on branches , so do organizational departments have individual employees work with blood , sweat and tear to help the organization meet its goals.
This relation between a TREE and ORGANIZATION in helping understand the need for WHY at various levels of an organization is an unbelievable concept outlined in the book which is not only realistic but memorable as well..
For those who have still not had the privilege of reading this book < I would highly recommend reading this book to achieve enlightenment.
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What are great organizations? – Simon Sinek quote
Please find below a very inspiring quote of Simon , on what truly great organizations are and what they want to achieve.
“All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does. “
Simon Sinek
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The DNA of “high performance teams” – The Simon Sinek Way
The book “Together is Better” by Simon Sinek tells us that human beings by nature love to socialize and try to find like minded individuals “who believe in what they believe”. This has been true right from the caveman times.
When like minded people form part of same teams , trust emerges , the synergistic benefits get realized , fulfillment happens and astonishing results follow.
We see numerous such examples in our workplaces as well wherein trusting teams produce much better results and are much more motivated than teams filled with cynicism and distrust.
The following amazing quote of Simon Sinek summarizes high performance teams , the need of every workplace.
“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” — Simon Sinek
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Art of persuasion is all about the “WHY” – The Simon Sinek Way
At many stages of life , we all would have come across different persuasion skills and techniques.
The best one till date , I have come across , is the one that persuades a person on the basis of his/her WHY.
Please see below , one of my most favorite quotes of Simon Sinek that captures the essence of persuasion via the “WHY”.
“Our minds can be convinced, but our hearts must be won.” — Simon Sinek
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Definition of “Success”- The Simon Sinek Way
Another crisp and crystal clear Simon Sinek quote that is not only inspiring to the core but very realistic as well..
We all dream to reach a destination but only when we realize that what we have dreamt has translated to reality is when we realize SUCCESS.
“Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.” — Simon Sinek
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Difference between “Vision” & “Goal” – The Simon Sinek way
What fascinates me about Simon Sinek is the ease with which he articulates his thoughts and make them sound so real. This is precisely the reason his thoughts resonate with me.
One such example is his difference between Goal and Vision.
The difference between vision and a goal is the finish line.
A goal is 26.2 miles. You can simply count the metrics and know when you’ve completed your goal.
A vision is having a crystal clear sense of what the finish line looks like, but no idea of how far away it is.