THE VIDEO SHELF · leadership
Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
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 HN readers recommended 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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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 99U
- Topic
- leadership
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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]
ivoras on Hacker News · 2016-01
In The RefragmentationSure. 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, …
anarchitect on Hacker News · 2014-06
In Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?I think the talks by Simon Sinek are pretty interesting, and he has a lot to say on leadership [0]. [0] [VIDEO]
cbcoutinho on Hacker News · 2017-12
In Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video on leadership?
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