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Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last

99U · 9.2M views · 2013-12-04 · 45:51

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Overview

Simon Sinek's 99U talk on why leaders earn trust by putting their team's safety ahead of their own, drawing on biology and anthropology. It distills the ideas of his book Leaders Eat Last into about 46 minutes.

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HN commenters point to it as a quick way to get the key concepts of the book and as an introduction to leadership thinking.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2014–2017

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Management, leadership & organizationsPsychology & human behavior
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What people said

ivoras · 2016-01 · Strong recommendation

Simply as a reference to how biology supports the human society and how biological signals can be gamed for short term benefit, this lecture was an eye opener for me: [VIDEO]

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cbcoutinho · 2017-12 · Recommendation

I think the talks by Simon Sinek are pretty interesting, and he has a lot to say on leadership [0]. [0] [VIDEO]

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anarchitect · 2014-06 · Recommendation

Sure. There are plenty of summaries available on Amazon, for instance, this summary of Good to Great ( [LINK] ). There are also some really great mini books like Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction ( [LINK] ) Also, I haven't tried these yet, but there are a number of subscription services available for summaries like [LINK] and [LINK] The other way of cheating is by watching talks by the authors, which give you the key concepts from the book in an hour. For example Simon Sinek presenting Why Leaders Eat Last ( [VIDEO] )

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