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Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last

Name: Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
Description: 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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3 HN users recommended this talk in 3 different months between 2014 and 2017.

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1 strong recommendation 2 recommendations HackerTube score 3.5

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

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.

Pull quote: “watching talks by the authors, which give you the key concepts from the book in an hour” (HN, 2014)

Also tagged: leadership, simon sinek, trust, team dynamics, management, biology of leadership

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Strongly recommends ivoras January 2016 under The Refragmentation

Explains how biological signals can be gamed for short-term benefit.

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]

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Recommends anarchitect June 2014 under Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?

Talk gives the key concepts of the book in an hour.

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] )

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Recommends cbcoutinho December 2017 under Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video on leadership?

Interesting Sinek talk on leadership.

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

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