Who the hell is Simon Sinek...

[Guest]

and why does my boss want us to watch this 18 minute video?  ( I made it 7-8 minutes and turned it off)

 

[Brisketexan 104,469]

22 minutes ago, slorch said:

and why does my boss want us to watch this 18 minute video?  ( I made it 7-8 minutes and turned it off)

 

Simon Snek?

[Parliament 14,113]

Your boss might be an idiot.

[Brisketexan 104,469]

Just now, Parliament said:

Your boss might be an idiot.

Or maybe he is snek.

[Agent 13 314]

Sinek means "fly" in Turkish. That's all I got.

[TTU13 108]

Patrick Lencioni. Check him out. Much easier and relatable content.

[Celery Man 20,874]

Didn’t recognize the name but definitely recognize “start with why”. Tell your boss it sucks and if he pushes back tell him it’s radical candor

[staboner 4,955]

he's the overly optimistic Slorch of LinkedIn

 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, staboner said:

he's the overly optimistic Slorch of LinkedIn

 

Bootstraps or no?

[deadshank 24,651]

20 hours ago, Agent 13 said:

Sinek means "fly" in Turkish. That's all I got.

My Turk BIL agrees.  He doesn't like Arabs and calls them "sineks." 

He's famous for his all-timer Turkish tongue twister.

KIrk küp, kIrkInInda kulpu kIrIk küp.

Roughly translates to "40 vases and they're all broken" or some such.  Quite funny when he says it and gets flustered.

 

[Guest]

On 4/21/2022 at 3:20 PM, Parliament said:

Your boss might be an idiot.

 

On 4/21/2022 at 8:40 PM, Celery Man said:

Didn’t recognize the name but definitely recognize “start with why”. Tell your boss it sucks and if he pushes back tell him it’s radical candor

Boss was relieved of her duties about 2 weeks ago.  Y'all are great assessors of talent.

Pos Rep to Celery for reminding me of this thread in another discussion on leadership. 

[Celery Man 20,874]

On 4/21/2022 at 9:40 PM, Celery Man said:

Didn’t recognize the name but definitely recognize “start with why”. Tell your boss it sucks and if he pushes back tell him it’s radical candor

 

5 minutes ago, slorch said:

 

Boss was relieved of her duties about 2 weeks ago.  Y'all are great assessors of talent.

Pos Rep to Celery for reminding me of this thread in another discussion on leadership. 

Ah, I shouldn’t make assumptions - agreement #2

[Hermanator 6,919]

On 4/22/2022 at 11:54 AM, deadshank said:

My Turk BIL agrees.  He doesn't like Arabs and calls them "sineks." 

He's famous for his all-timer Turkish tongue twister.

KIrk küp, kIrkInInda kulpu kIrIk küp.

Roughly translates to "40 vases and they're all broken" or some such.  Quite funny when he says it and gets flustered.

 

[Incredulity 11,534]

Watched all 18 min.

 

Am I in a cult now?

[Mole 4,319]

Most Ted Talks are for people who feel like they are smart and want to be reminded that the feel like they’re smart. It feels good to feel like a smart person.

[PRONG HORN 3,107]

Especially if you are ugly or were picked on in high school.  

[txduck87 981]

Watched all 18 min.
 
Am I in a cult now?

Indeed.

[High Plains Drifter 10,970]

On 10/15/2022 at 10:42 AM, slorch said:

 

Boss was relieved of her duties about 2 weeks ago.  Y'all are great assessors of talent.

Pos Rep to Celery for reminding me of this thread in another discussion on leadership. 

 

so the boss got moved out of why, past how, past what, and straight to "wtf".

[Viking 299]

Love me some Simon Sinek because he's a tell for dipshit managers. If your company brings him in as the headline speaker for its yearly leadership conference then just sit back and enjoy knowing that you work with fuckwits.

[Samson's Wig 3,168]

Sinek is a prime example of what one can accomplish with no experience, a sketchy education, no discernible skillset, and access to the Internet.

[Spankytoes 1,735]

21 hours ago, Mole said:

Most Ted Talks are for people who feel like they are smart and want to be reminded that the feel like they’re smart. It feels good to feel like a smart person.

*they

[HornOnTheBayou 8,877]

8 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

Sinek is a prime example of what one can accomplish with no experience, a sketchy education, no discernible skillset, and access to the Internet.

So he's most of the posters on surly?

[Samson's Wig 3,168]

16 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

So he's most of the posters on surly?

[Dbeasy 14,953]

On 10/18/2022 at 1:03 PM, Samson's Wig said:

Sinek is a prime example of what one can accomplish with no experience, a sketchy education, no discernible skillset, and access to the Internet.

This might be one of the truest posts ever made on surly. That guy took one interesting idea that ended up being crap, and turned it into an entire career of creating useless drivel that clogs the pores of the internet. He is example five million and four of all that’s wrong with this world. 

[Brisketexan 104,469]

4 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

This might be one of the truest posts ever made on surly. That guy took one interesting idea that ended up being crap, and turned it into an entire career of creating useless drivel that clogs the pores of the internet. He is example five million and four of all that’s wrong with this world. 

I assume the first 5,000,003 examples are OU-related?

[Dbeasy 14,953]

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