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Books to increase productivity, concentration and success at work

From the bestselling author of Start With Why

The Infinite Game

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? 
 
In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business.

The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? 
 
In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business.

A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team

Find Your Why

Start With Why has led millions of readers to rethink everything they do, in their personal lives, their careers and their organisations. 
 
Now Find Your Why picks up where Start With Why left off. It shows you how to apply Simon Sinek's powerful insights so that you can find more inspiration at work and in turn inspire those around you. 
 
This hands-on, step-by-step guide will help you to find your WHY. With detailed exercises, illustrations and action steps for every stage of the process, Find Your Why can help you address many important concerns including: 
 
-What if my WHY sounds like my competitors? 
-Can I have more than one WHY? 
-If my work doesn't match my WHY, what should I do? 
-What if my team can't agree on our WHY? 
 
Whether you've just started your first job, are leading a team or are CEO of your own company, the exercises in this book will help guide you on a path to long-term success and fulfilment, both for you and your colleagues.

Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 150 million views. 
 
Find Your Why is the follow up to Start with Why, the global bestseller and the subject of the third most watched TED Talk of all time. 
 
With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. Now, along with two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, Sinek has created a guide to the most important step any business can take: finding your why. 
 
This easy-to-follow guide starts with the search for your personal why, and then expands to helping your colleagues find your organization's why. With detailed instructions on every stage in the process, the book also answer common concerns, such as: What if my why sounds like my competitor's? Can you have more than one why? And, if my work doesn't match my why, what do I do? 
 
Whether you're entry level or a CEO, whether your team is run by the founder or a recent hire, these simple steps will lead you on a path to a more fulfilling life and long-term success for you and your colleagues.

Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Leaders Eat Last

Leadership is not a rank, it is a responsibility. Leadership is not about being in charge, it is about taking care of those in your charge. 
 
When we take care of our people, our people will take care of us. They will help see that our cause becomes a reality. 
 
In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally bestselling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine Corps Officers, who don't just sacrifice their place at the table but often their own comfort and even their lives for those in their care, to the heads of big business and government - each putting aside their own interests to protect their teams. 
 
'Simple and elegant, it shows us how leaders should lead' William Ury, co-author of Getting to Yes

As refreshingly simple and easy to follow as it is thought-provoking

Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work. This is not a crazy, idealised notion. In many successful organisations, great leaders are creating environments in which teams trust each other so deeply that they would put their lives on the line for each other. 
 
Yet other teams, no matter what incentives were offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? 
 
Today's workplaces tend to be full of cynicism, paranoia and self-interest. But the best organisations foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a Circle of Safety. It separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Everyone feels they belong and all energies are devoted to facing the common enemy and seizing big opportunities. 
 
As in Start with Why, Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories, from the military to manufacturing, from government to investment banking. He shows that leaders who are willing to eat last are rewarded with deeply loyal colleagues who will stop at nothing to advance their vision. It's amazing how well it works.

A Little Book of Inspiration

Together is Better

A little book of inspiration for the modern world. 
 
Most of us live our lives by accident - we live as it happens. Fulfilment comes when we live our lives on purpose. 
 
'What are you going to do with your life? What are you doing with your life now?' 
 
'Do you have goals? A vision? A clear sense of why you do what you do?' 
 
Almost everyone knows someone who has grappled with at least one of these questions. The answers can often seem elusive or uncertain. 
 
Though there are many paths to follow into the unknown future, there is one way that dramatically increases the chances we will enjoy the journey. To travel with someone we trust. 
 
We can try to build a successful career or a happy life alone, but why would we? 
 
Together is better. 
 
This unique and delightful little book makes the point that together is better in a quite unexpected way. Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last and The Infinite Game, blends the wisdom he has gathered from around the world with a heartwarming, richly illustrated original fable. 
 
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 150 million views and his TED Talk on the global bestseller Start with Why is the third most watched of all time. 
 
Sinek's latest work, Together is Better, is a little book of inspiration for the modern world. 
 
Most of us live our lives by accident - we live as it happens. Fulfilment comes when we live our lives on purpose. 
 
'What are you going to do with your life? What are you doing with your life now?' 
 
'Do you have goals? A vision? A clear sense of why you do what you do?' 
 
Almost everyone knows someone who has grappled with at least one of these questions. The answers can often seem elusive or uncertain. 
 
Though there are many paths to follow into the unknown future, there is one way that dramatically increases the chances we will enjoy the journey. To travel with someone we trust. 
 
We can try to build a successful career or a happy life alone, but why would we? 
 
Together is better. 
 
This unique and delightful little book makes the point that together is better in a quite unexpected way. Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, blends the wisdom he has gathered from around the world with a heartwarming, richly illustrated original fable. 
 
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek

15th Anniversary Edition: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

In 2009, Simon Sinek ignited a movement to help people find a greater sense of purpose at work and added a new word to the lexicon of business: WHY. People and companies now regularly talk about their WHY. Sinek’s videos have been seen by over a billion people around the world, including more than 65 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on Start with Why. 
 
Sinek starts with a fundamental question: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? 
 
Start With Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way— and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common but they inspired people, not with WHAT they did...but with WHY they did it. 
 
Sinek provides a simple framework that inspires people to build organizations and lead movements in a more powerful and effective way. And it all starts with WHY. 
 
With a new foreword touching on the importance of holding onto our WHY in a distracted age, new examples, and original stories updated, this 15th anniversary edition celebrates a simple but transformative idea that has changed the way we think about leadership and legacy.

Simon Sinek

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