Reviews and Comments

Ritchie is an awesome swimmer, falls deep into alcoholism while he makes his way through the best schools in the country failing his way into Hollywood legal practices, goes broke while maintaining a lifestyle capable of supporting a wedding party with famous attendees and performers and custom building their own house near napa, and fortunately the universe shows him how to travel worldwide for racing eating 100 advocadoes a day and taking meetings on the side of the road during rides, meeting with the occasional guru. AND YOU CAN TOO!

He doesn't actually say that last part which I appreciate and find redeeming. Regardless of the silver spoons he's able to find along the way, it's pretty remarkable.

And certainly I've found much of his philosophy fits my experience also. Although I'm unlikely to ever do an ironman, let alone one on each Hawaiian island.

Didn't finish before the book was due, but that's fine, I got most of it.

Jenn is so right. I've already been recommending this book to my coworkers - we're in government, doing software and related stuff. She's so right and her suggestions point us towards how to get better.

I had some annoyances with how the fictional science worked. Some things seem to break from the characters' understandings of their universe, but also seem to be probably never possible in our universe.

One of those things came towards the end and was critical to resolving the plot.

The book was still very entertaining though. It had me turning pages and I'd probably read a sequel.

Fantastic. Loved it.

I recall previous Sinek books I've read trying to say something new about organizations and leadership. I think Sinek now finds himself near the top of the heap of trusted opinions, and with this book he is instead trying to leverage that influence to advocate for more common change in organizations.

Have empathy, the charge to the current generation of top leaders... I see little direct evidence presented, but more common sense and argument. These are the things I remember the most, and they result in a request for change instead of a reasoned argument.

The arguments are compelling - but I found them to already fit my worldview, instead of changing that worldview.

Still, fine book.

I'm about halfway through this one, and am loving this look at life in the Marines.