How Reading Can Help You Overcome Life’s Challenges: A Timely Lesson from Simon Sinek’s “Start With Why”
Rebuilding Trust in Leadership and Finding Purpose Beyond Self-Interest
It never seems to fail that, whenever I am going through a challenging moment in life, inevitably some advice shows up in something that I am reading that speaks directly to the struggle at hand.
The power of reading and signs from the universe are for real, y’all.
To wit, no joke, this was the first sentence that I read the other day after a conversation with a colleague regarding trust:
Rebuilding trust in leadership is one of the challenges that faces our leaders at our office right now. It is a challenge that many other offices face now too, and one that everyone is certain to face at some point. The erosion of trust, much like the erosion of discipline, can be a slow and steady — and inevitable — process.
Simon Sinek communicates a way forward for us in “Start With Why”, a book about the importance of knowing your WHY and communicating it effectively to others. In our case, in order to rebuild the trust that others have in our leadership, we have to be about something other than ourselves according to Sinek.
Taking that a step further:
We have to be about something more than ourselves.
Great quote by Simon. That is absolutely true. When a manager manages "up" or when you know leadership is only in it for their self interests/next promotion- they can't be on your team fully to help you succeed creating a culture that isn't genuine and one of many many reasons why there is no more loyalty with our generation as millennial and will be even less with Gen Z.