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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek · 2009

Simon Sinek’s book on purpose and organizational leadership. This is the original work, without asserting a preferred edition.

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Portrait unavailable for Sarah Friar Sarah FriarTechnology finance and operating leader

Selected in her recent favorite-books update.

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Evidence details Recent favorite books reading update

Friar’s own January 2023 post presents recent favorite books. This authored list is separate from her 2019 McKinsey planned-reading selection and 2023 Stanford contextual Range discussion.

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Sarah Friar / Medium · 2023-01-29 · accessed 2026-10-02

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Friar’s own January 2023 post presents recent favorite books. This authored list is separate from her 2019 McKinsey planned-reading selection and 2023 Stanford contextual Range discussion.

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Portrait unavailable for Alain Bejjani Alain BejjaniFormer Majid Al Futtaim CEO

Bejjani applies the book’s discussion of organizational purpose to his company.

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Substantive contextual reference in his own interview response; no explicit suggestion that readers obtain the book.

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McKinsey · 2017-08-02 · accessed 2026-10-01

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