...AUTHOR: SIMON SINEK Year of Publication: 2009 Title: START WITH WHY – HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE EVERYONE TO TAKE ACTION Publisher PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Place of Publication: NEW YORK, NEW YORK. USA “Start with Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek Sinek, S. (2009). Start with why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. Penguin. Word count : 1,566 Executive Summary of paper: This report provides an analysis of the key points developed in Simon Sinek’s book “Start with Why” – How Great Leaders inspire everyone to take action”. Sinek studies the great leaders who have the ability to motivate people by inspiring them to act. The report also highlights the ideas that have strategic significance for the Human Resource profession. In particular, how managers can provide a positive organisational environment in which employees are inspired and motivated to achieve a high level of work performance through the understanding of WHY. Why Start with WHY? Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Action by Simon Sinek (2009) is a book about how some organisations and leaders have been able to inspire those around them. Sinek explains in his opening chapter that “there are leaders and there are those who lead” (p.5). This book has been written as a guide to augment a naturally occurring way of thinking that some great leaders have, so that we can all learn from this blueprint. Sinek allows...
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...Why should we start school later? We should start school later because there have been studies that reveal students do better if they go to school at 9am. By starting school later we, students, can have time to get ready, we will be in a positive mood based on a soundly sleep, and we will have time to eat breakfast. Getting ready is important to some students. Some wake up around 5am - 6am to fix their hair or to put on makeup. With more time we can get to class early. Without that extra hour we need, some students arrive to class based on over sleeping. If a student come during middle of class they lost the beginning half of the lesson then they feel lost because they were late and they don’t know what the teacher or professor is teaching....
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...It is Wednesday morning around 5:45 AM, so my brain is warming up to remember why it is important to start school. In the beginning of my academic initiative, I was a student at DeVry University where I graduated with an “Associates of Science Degree in Electronics”. Within a year or two after commencement (and launching a career), I realized the relevance of certifications within the technology industry and worked to collect as many papers of approval as time permitted. Eventually these industry credentials were devalued and new diplomas were pursued. The cycle continued for several years until my wife and I started our family. I love to learn and eventually realized the time devoted toward industry approval should have served toward a higher...
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...School days should start later because it gives the kids more sleep and more time to prepare and be ready for the day. Another reason that it would be good for schools to start later is that it would help students feel more lively and awake because they get more sleep. There are many good reasons why kids should start school earlier, one being that kids will have better memories. Kids having better memories would help them with school since they wouldn't forget the stuff that they learned the day before. Research says that kids who get better sleep get improved attention, memory and better performance at school. It's important that kids do better in school because it will help set them up for life later on. It's been shown that kids who don't...
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...School is a very interesting thing when it comes to learning,but sometimes and some subjects can make you want to fall asleep. I think on Friday’s, school should start way late on Fridays: like around 9:45 or 10:15! If school was to start on Friday’s it has to have reasons why. I looked up on google what the expert say and Dr.Paul Kelley says that Children 8-10 should start at 10:30 or later. Kelley called for an end to early starts at schools, colleges and university to “improve the lives of a generation”. An effect on students if there was to be a later day, is the sleep difference. An expert from CBS News says that middle schools should start later in the morning to give students their much-needed sleep. But Dr.Judith Owens says, “One of the issues is that kids are overscheduled, don’t give them so much work so they can be in bed before midnight. I agree with all these experts, but just because they’re experts doesn't mean they’re true. I only agree with two out of the 4 opinions from all of the doctors or professor’s opinions. I know that school is good for you but,why does it have to start so early? 9:15 would be fine!...
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...with their time. One reason why teenagers are sleep deprived is because they are up too late procrastinating. Teens procrastinate way too...
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...buzzing sound of the alarm clock. “I should be sleeping right now. Not waking up at 6 AM.” I grumbled to myself as I slowly got ready for another day of school. People often ask their friends and themselves why we have to get up early almost everyday and be at school by 8:45 or 7:30. (Debate.org) According to the data collected from students, 79% say that school should start later, while the remaining 21% oppose the idea. One student who supports the idea stated that she had observed her sister through her high school years. She said that if her sister’s school had started later, and ended later, then she would be ready to learn and the chance of her falling asleep during class decrease. Another student claimed that a average teenager need about 9.5 hours of sleep a night, but study shows that teens usually get about 7.5 hours. Their claim was that you can’t concentrate when you are tired, and if you were taking a exam, you would need concentration. Other students share that they don’t have time for breakfast, they are stressed in the morning hours and they feel rushed. Though the students are correct, the other 21% is also correct. Students...
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...In many cities that have school start around 7 a.m., students are driving to school in the dark. Most of these students are new drivers and are normally experiencing drowsiness while driving (Why Change?, n.d.). The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimates that 328,000 motor vehicle accidents and 6,400 fatal crashes occur on U.S. roads every year due to drowsy driving. From 2009 to 2010, a school district in Virginia had a 29 percent higher weekday crash rate than another school in the same state that started more than an hour later. Data shows that a majority of drowsy driver accidents is highest among drivers between the ages of 16 and 24 years (AASM News Archive, 2014). If schools decided to let their students sleep for a longer amount of time, crash rates would decrease by 16.8 percent. Dr. Barbara Phillips stated, “Younger, inexperienced drivers...
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...School isn’t so easy and can be really tiring … shouldn’t we students deserve late days at least every Friday? A late day is a day when school starts later, at about 9:00 in the morning. Starting school later in the day will help students achieve better test scores, have less sleepy faces during class, and improve their academic performance. Sleep is important to have, and it keeps you not as grumpy in the morning… wouldn’t you want to have a late day on Friday if it means you can get more sleep? Getting more sleep means that us students would be more energized for school, and we wouldn’t be half asleep in class! I have had some personal experience with getting up in the morning and it’s not too pretty! I always want to go back to sleep and...
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...we have to continue to get up early in the morning. There are many reasons why we should start school later. Some are because there are many activities like sports, or even jobs that can keeps teens up later. We should start school later because children are not alert and are not comprehending what they are learning during the day. Also, we need at least 8.5 hours of sleep each night. First, activities like sports and jobs keep us up later. Even having activities to do you have to squeeze the time in to do homework which keeps us up later. Also when you hit the stages of adolescents it is physically harder to fall asleep. And still schools start as early as 7:00 a.m. With school starting that early it really takes a toll...
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...Traffic Administration, more than half of teens surveyed reported that they have driven a car while drowsy and that every year, an estimate of 100,000 accidents, 40,000 injuries, and 1,500 people are killed in the U.S. every year in crashes caused by drivers who are simply tried. Sleep deprivation causes students to be disoriented and have a possibility to make bad decisions. Therefore, sleep deprivation was the main reason of why students were as impaired with a blood alcohol content of .08% and why crashes happen every year from drivers who were simply tired. If this is the case then schools should not care about delaying school start times and spending extra money for transportation if it prevents thousands of deaths from causes like driving with sleep...
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...Why do schools start at 8 a.m.? It is because it is more convenient for parents that have children in elementary school. School starts too early for teens; it is natural for elementary children to start at 8 a.m. but not teenagers. Teenagers need more sleep than older adults and young children. Schools should start later because students be more alert and healthier as well as schools will save money. Schools starting later will help students be more alert. The lack of sleep most adolescents get can cause moodiness, lack of attention, memory problems, behavior issues, and the ability to function (kqed). People between 14-24 years old are the most likely to be sleep deprived and it is due to not getting enough sleep during the week (iflscience). Benefits of sleeping include increased memory and learning, better attention span. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost 70% of high-school students report sleeping for seven hours or less on a regular basis (time). This proves that the majority of students are sleep...
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...Waking up early and going to sleep early is a difficult task for teens because of their internal sleep clocks. Starting school later would drastically improve the performance of students. If school were to start later in the day it would be beneficial to students because students will be more awake, students will make better grades, and students will have a better attitude. First, students will be more awake at school. Students will get the correct amount of sleep needed to perform well in school. They will be well rested and their brains will have received an appropriate amount of sleep. Students will participate in class more because they will not be asleep and will be paying attention. Second, students will make better grades in...
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...kids poorly More than 80% of schools start before 8:00. Schools should start time later because when kids fall asleep in class, they don’t get the knowledge they need, not enough sleep makes people sleepy and groggy and not enough sleep can hurt people mentally and physically. The first reason why sleep is important is when kids fall asleep in class, students don’t get the knowledge they need. Teenagers are tempted to stay up later so they have a tendency to fall asleep in class (The teen who woke up her school). This is bad if students fall asleep so this is one reason to push back school times. “60% of kids complain that they are tired in school,” states Sleepfoundation.org. Again, if school started at 8 or 8:30, there would be no problem with the complaining.The majority of students past the age of 13 are sleep deprived. To conclude this, Next when people don’t have enough sleep, people are really tired and cranky. The second reason why school should start after 8 is not enough sleep can make people sleepy...
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...Did you know that lack of sleep in children and teenagers can have a negative effect on their health and can cause kids to be less active and even lead to obesity? Schools all over the world should start later because of the mental health effects a lack of sleep can have on a student. One piece of evidence from the article “School Start Times” is, “Doctors say that kids between the ages of six to twelve should get nine to twelve hours of sleep a night to make sure they stay healthy.” This piece of evidence from the text supports my claim because this quote explains that if kids don't get a proper amount of sleep it could damage their health. The amount of sleep we need to get is different for everyone but studies show the more sleep you get the better students focus in class, so why do schools make students start so early if they know the students won't be at their best learning capability?...
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