...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...of diabetes and heart problems, increased risk for psychiatric conditions including depression and substance abuse, decreased ability to pay attention, react to signals or remember new information”. (The National Sleep Foundation). Lack of sleep can also cause students to forget important things. School should start at least an hour later. That one hour can affect the quality of the students towards school work and tests. Cristo Rey Jesuit should begin its school day one hour later because students spend too much...
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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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...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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...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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...You are lying in bed smiling because you think you have more time to sleep. You peacefully lay in bed when your alarm clock goes off. You think “why does school have to start so early it feels like I just went to bed”. Experts say that the perfect time to start school would be 8:30 in the morning, FPMS starts at 7:50. This is a huge 40 minute time difference. The reason experts say that this is the best time is because it allows kids to get their 8.5-9.5 hours of sleep per night even if they go to bed at 11:00 or 12:00. Micah Ertl an 8th grade student at FPMS said, “I don’t like that school starts this early, it is a big jump from elementary school”. Zach an 8th grade student from FPMS said, “School starts too early I don’t like it because...
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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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...Your alarm clock wakes you up groggy, on Monday morning for another week in school, for most people this situation is all too familiar and all too annoying. As you beg for 5 more minutes you once may have thought “Why can’t school start later.” Well for the following reasons. Starting schools 2 hours later means ending school 2 hours later and for students who play sports they could not go home until 7:30-8:30 pm. Most kids are not tired anyway and it is very expensive. Schools should not start later. First of all, it is common sense that starting school at the recommended 10:00am (2 hours later ) would mean ending school 2 hours later. Which, would mean kids who play sports who would usually get out of practice at 5:30-6:30 pm would be...
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...Teens and Sleep School should start at a later time so teens could get enough sleep. It is no surprise that teens sleep late at night. Almost all of them only get about six hours of sleep. The reasons for that are: tons of homework, chores, jobs, etc. Sometimes they are even forced to go out by their parents/guardians because of a relative’s birthday party or just visiting friend. And when they go out, sometimes they come home late. Which forces them to do their homework at midnight. Some teens take AP and honors classes so they could easily get into colleges. Taking those classes puts a lot of stress into students if they don’t have time to study or do their homework. If school starts at a later time. They would definitely have the time to do it and they’d be able to sleep more. According to a research, not having enough sleep can have a huge effect on a student’s concentration, focusness, and alertness. They will feel sleepy and have problems focusing in school. My favorite quote from the article...
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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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