Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

From the days of Socrates to the more modern Stephen R. Covey and Victor Frankl these timeless teachers have made it clear that we are all purpose driven. In an age of constant running and forces competing for our time, energy and attention, Find Your Why brings us back to a deeper sense of fire, passion and purpose upon which our lives ache to be built.The authors are remarkable in that they outline for us the process for discovering the "why" that already is present in each of us, but for most is waiting to be revealed and acted upon. If you want to create a positive impact on the world around you and more importantly live a life of deeper meaning and purpose, of contribution then Find Your Why will illuminate the path for you.Simon's great book Start With Why informs of the "Golden Circle" and its importance to organization's and individuals, Find Your Why by Simon Sinek, Peter Docker and David Meade is the practical, easily read and implemented process by which anyone can engage in the "discovery Why" process.Many great leadership and human effectiveness books lay out great theory and principles but few actually give you the operating manual to turn that theory into practice. Find Your Why does exactly that! This is a must read, and read again, and again for any executive or aspiring leader, teacher and trainer, consultant and anyone who is in the business of growing human capacity -- pretty much all of us!Find Your Why is easy to read, has a welcoming layout and design that almost makes it fun as you engage in the process of discovering your own Why or facilitating the discovery of someone else's Why. The audio book is excellent and narrated by Stephen Shedletzky one of the Start With Why Team's most experienced teachers!Join the movement, be inspired, inspire others and Find Your Why!!

This was a book we read at my work book club. We all enjoyed it and took it one step further to find our why. I don’t know that I would have otherwise if not for this book. It was a quick and easy read and mission accomplished!

I read Start with Why and Find Your Why back to back over just a few days. Sinek’s famous Ted Talk (Presented in 2009, it has over 33 million views.) was so powerful to me that I had to see where he was with it now.The man has a theme. He calls it the Golden Circle: Why—How—What. Why is the reason. How is the means. What is the result. They all have to be in balance, driven by the why, and when they are, you will achieve authenticity and success.The theme hasn’t changed. In terms of the Start with Why concept itself, you’ll find little new here. Find Your Why is a how-to. Sinek and his team, Peter Docker and David Mead, and Docker and Mead in particular, provide a detailed guide to defining and sharing the why, how, and what within an actual organization, using the process they have refined through extensive use to help companies apply the original Sinek concept. (There is a refresher for those who haven’t read Start with Why or viewed the Ted talk.)As the authors state, “That’s the reason this book exists. If Start with Why makes the case for the WHY, Find Your Why provides the steps to show people how to actually do it.” And it does a good job at achieving that goal.To those who have been in the organizational world for a while, a lot of this will sound a lot like past initiatives to define mission, values, strategy, and tactics, or some combination of those concepts, however you define them. The Start With Why Team, as they refer to themselves, openly discusses that later in the book.The language is different. And so are the priorities and the focus. Values, as most organizations define them, and as the Why Team points out, are really just ideals. They aren’t actionable. And they’re right.It would be a disservice, therefore, to characterize the Why program as more of the same, either more of the 2009 TED talk or more of the overlapping programs many other consultants have promoted over the years. This is more than just another of the 32 flavors of Colgate toothpaste that Sinek refers to in Start with Why. And that’s because he always goes back to why. And that’s the magic.So, if you are responsible for developing engagement, strategy, or similar programs for your company, I would consider this a must read. If that’s not what you need, there is still plenty of value to the book. Sinek and his team are clearly impassioned. The writing is very fluid. And when it comes to WHY, you can’t get too much of a good thing.

I never would have guessed that "For individuals, our WHY is fully formed by our late teens." That tidbit, on P31 sent me down a path that I wasn't anticipating! Reading further, and looking ahead to the rest of the instructions on how to go about finding your WHY really opened my eyes to the fact that I'd been looking in all the wrong places! While I've been progressing through the book and following the instructions, I'm still in the early chapters. One thing is definitely clear, Find Your Why will get me there. I'm also hoping that it will address how to take that why and applying it to creating a (more) fulfilling lifepath as well as turning it into motivation for long term sustained "progress" or at least a clear direction to explore next in my life. Regardless, knowing my WHY will set me up for taking the next steps, wherever it leads me!

Receiver enjoyed.

Never ask why you purchased this book - a good read and helps provide the tools you need to teach others or your team

Mucha calidad en la edición y formato también.

I like his theory of limbic and neuronic brain and his way to find one's purpose of life that is why which is supported by what and how. It's a cycle which goes on

At first, I was in doubt because actually the book wasn't written by Simon Sinek, but by some of his colleagues. To my surprise, the book was really good and helped me to find my WHY. I followed all the steps and then suddenly, my WHY came naturally. I recommend it.

Faccio la recenzione perché non trovo mai il tempo e la giusta ispirazione di leggerlo, per adesso ho letto solo le prime pagine e mi ha interessato il modo con cui si pone di iniziare. La lettura in inglese non è difficile, Simon Sinek si pone di essere molto chiaro nel modo in cui espone le cose (già constatato in "Togother is Better"), il libro ha una copertina blu-lucida molto ma molto bella.Senza dubbio aggiornerò questa recensione non appena lo avrò letto tutto!!