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Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2014–2017.

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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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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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“watching talks by the authors, which give you the key concepts from the book in an hour”
— anarchitect, Jun 2014, in “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

ivorasJan 2016Strongly recommends

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

in “The Refragmentation” · View on HN

cbcoutinhoDec 2017Recommends

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

in “Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video on leadership?” · View on HN

anarchitectJun 2014Recommends

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 )

in “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?” · View on HN

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Management, leadership & organizationsPsychology & human behaviorsimon sinektrustteam dynamicsmanagementbiology of leadership