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If you want to feel more fulfilled motivated and inspired whether you're leading a household, classroom, team, small business, or fortune 500 company, then do we have the show for you.
Today we'll be talking with Simon Sinek, the undisputed King of the Why, though he may never have been called that before, but he's the global best-selling author of one of the most Inspiring Books on Leadership, Success and Business Out there, Start with Why.
We'll be talking about the "why", what it is, why it's so important, how to incorporate it into our lives, and who in the world is using it for success?
Plus we'll talk about inspiration vs. manipulation, Ferrari's vs. minivans, why there's 32 flavors of toothpaste, why Sneetches have stars and what in the world Hot pants, and go-go suits, have to do with air travel.
Questions and Topics Include:
- What happened with Simon as a 4th year entrepreneur
- How his passion and optimism was gone.
- How Simon Sinek began to learn how our lives (and even businesses) function on the same three levels.
- How Simon Sinek began his search to find his why and to find his balance again.
- What is nature's balance?
- Wright Brothers vs.
- The story of the race for flight
- Why people and companies 'fail'
- Why the clearer the cause the more maniacal we become to succeed
- What is a why?
- How did Apple Computers exemplify the why?
- Why you can't have price, speed, and technology.
- What Simon talked about in his Ted Talk, and what does it mean to have Why, How, What?
- What is the Golden Circle and why do we have things inside out?
- Why people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do.
- Why you want to be honest and true and do things that reflect my beliefs, and why those who believe what I believe will be attracted to me
- What Dr. Seuss's Sneetches have to do with us
- What Ben Cohen, a runner with cerebral palsy, can teach us about ourselves.
- How do we become more like Ben
- Why we're drawn to people who only compete with themselves
- What requires tremendous courage
- Why you need to go for it, and take care of those around you, even if you're putting yourself at risk
- Why it's important to risk yourself to help others
- What it means to be called a leader
- Why Martin Luther King gave the 'I have a dream' speech, not the 'I have a plan' speech, but why politicians today all give 12 point plans to solve a problem
- Why a common vision is needed first
- What does it mean to start at the values level, and why is it so important.
- How do we bring out our why?
- How can we start to do this right away (to find your why)?
- How do you cultivate your why?
- What do you do once you find your why?
- How do you use your why once you find it?
- How the why works
- What's the Celery test?
- What does 32 flavors of toothpaste have to do with anything?
- Why there's only two ways to influence people (manipulation or inspiration)
- Why it's so important to take care of each other
- Why we truly help ourselves by helping each other
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