Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
99U3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2014–2017
talk · general · evergreen · 2014–2017 on HN
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.
HN commenters point to it as a quick way to get the key concepts of the book and as an introduction to leadership thinking.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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: ▶ this video
I think the talks by Simon Sinek are pretty interesting, and he has a lot to say on leadership [0]. [0] ▶ this video
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 ( ▶ this video )