Simon Sinek's Misguided Ideas

Starts with . . . Why? Why is a question that one should ask themselves often while reading Simon Sinek’s book Starts With Why. Why was this book assigned? Why has this man been allowed to go on for so long without someone challenging his misguided ideas? Why do people blindly accept what Sinek is saying as fact? There are plenty of similar questions that could be asked but the abridged version of the list will have to do for the purposes of this paper. While most of what Sinek wrote is a disservice to those who buy too much into it, he does have a few concepts that can serve to help leaders. However, Mr. Sinek’s book is mostly a cheap attempt at taking the success of others and retelling their stories with his own idea of why they succeeded. Almost all of his ideas are regurgitated dozens of times, applied to the same …show more content…
He is a man who sees things with a positive swing. He wants to spread his ideas on how to be successful in business and as a leader. Most of his ideas are based solely in the commercial and business world, although a handful of ideas are applicable to real world leadership scenarios. However, his attempt to pass this off as scientific inquiry is an embarrassment to both Sinek himself and to science in general. With such an egregious violation of the scientific method one can not accept Sinek’s ideas. The only conclusion I am left with is to throw out what Sinek presents in his book. The little content that was valuable can be found through our life experiences. Trust in your subordinates, take care of your subordinates, develop a winning culture, all of these are lessons that I have learned several times over and have adapted into my own leadership philosophy. Sinek, sadly, does nothing to contribute to my knowledge of leadership. I look forward to finding different literature that is more useful to my development in the future; literature not from the mind of Simon