How Great Businesses Achieve Long-lasting Success
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.
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Honestly a book that should be on top of the list for anyone involved in business. Filled with good thoughts and sensible advices for running businesses that put people first.
It definitely lacked something, although I can't put my finger on it. For what seemed like quite an easy read, I found it very difficult to keep at it.
Quarterly results or sustainable enterprise founded on a just cause, able to flex and change to continue pursuing the just cause, while putting people first. Sinek explains why the latter approach is both sustainable and profitable.