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It's very easy for Simon Sinek to write and speak about leadership when he has never actually done it. Divorced from the messiness of reality, you can write a l
by pclmulqdq 1y ago
It's very easy for Simon Sinek to write and speak about leadership when he has never actually done it. Divorced from the messiness of reality, you can write a lot of nice-sounding platitudes.
- ugh123 1y ago100%.
- aeternum 1y agoExactly right. Each of these is just obviously wrong. Leaders Overshare? Simon shares material non-public information on linkedin. Now he and the company are in trouble. Leaders bend the rules? Simon bent the rules for some of his team but not others, now multiple past employees are bringing discrimination lawsuits. Leaders coach and help people land softly? Simon kept too many low performers on his team and now the company's product is buggy, behind competitors and forced to downsize so his entire team is being cut.
- otherme123 1y ago> Leaders Overshare? Simon shares material non-public information on linkedin. Now he and the company are in trouble. I think this is within the team. Maybe you never worked for someone who doesn't share, who keep secrets, within the team. I did. It is frustrating. It makes you doubt every word they say, even a simple "everything is going fine" sows doubt in you, making you wonder if they are hidding bad news. It makes you doubt what you are doing is useful, because some time ago they hide a change of focus for weeks. Then the secrets are revealed, they are stupid and pointless (not industrial secrets like you imply), they kept it secret just in case.
- hackable_sand 1y agoWoah what bizarro world do you come from?
- squigz 1y agoI like the complete lack of nuance in this and other responses. Like yeah, obviously what they meant was oversharing internal information publicly.
- cutemonster 1y agoSometimes people want to interpret what others say in the dumbest way possible, to get something to criticize and seem smart themselves?
- FinnLobsien 1y agoIts funny that the motivational speakers, coaches etc are rarely the people who’ve actually done the thing they preach for a living. The best coaches, “mentors” etc I’ve had would never issue blanket advice like that because they know it’d be wrong for most people.
- ccppurcell 1y agoA nugget of advice distilled from Bill Hader: when people tell you what you're doing isn't working, they're right. When they tell you what you should do instead, they're wrong.
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- scott_w 1y ago100% this. I bought his book, got through maybe 5 pages and realised it was self-aggrandising bullshit. I’ve never picked it back up. His rant about avocado on toast only cemented my view that he never starts with why he’s wrong every time he opens his mouth.
- fullstackwife 1y agoArgumentum ad hominem - seriously, team! we can do better than that!
- bee_rider 1y agoIf someone is giving life-coach type advice, an ad hominem actually might be relevant, right? The blog post doesn’t really make any arguments, it is just advice based on his observations. Which is fine, but it hinges on his expertise.
- pclmulqdq 1y agoAn ad hominem isn't always a fallacy. If you put yourself out as someone with credibility or expertise in a field and use that to back up your ideas, you have put your credibility on the table to attack.