Simon Sinek: Why Leaders Eat Last
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.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2014 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec ivoras · 2016-01 · on “The Refragmentation”
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]
Recommends anarchitect · 2014-06 · on “Ask HN: Dev promoted to more strategic role in startup. What literature?”
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] )
Recommends cbcoutinho · 2017-12 · on “Ask HN: Any YouTube channel/video 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]