Leaders Eat Last Key Points
Leaders Eat Last Key Points
Leaders Eat Last Key Points
the perspective of
WHERE TO FIND…
employees and managers,
Sinek outlines how to inspire
Summary trust in an organization
The Wiring of Humans …. 2
The Circle of Safety …….. 3
while standing up against Five Leadership Lessons . 4
the dangers from outside. Combating Abstraction … 5
Sinek invites his readers Application to Leadership
Theories ……………….. 6
to consider three important
Evaluation …………………. 7
Leaders Eat Last is New York ideas: Meet the Author …………. 7
Times Bestselling author, 1) Understand how humans Credits …………….……….. 7
Simon Sinek’s highly are naturally wired. Become a Leader ……….. 8
anticipated second book. 2) Combat abstraction in the
Through it’s pages, Sinek corporate environment.
explores the aspects of 3) Become a leader.
leadership through a This book will help
biological perspective. He organizations build a culture “Marine leaders eat last
compares modern where the employees are because the true price of
organizations with our loyal and engaged, willing to leadership is the
Paleolithic ancestors to adopt supportive willingness to place the
determine what makes a mentalities, and become needs of others above your
great leader. He determines motivated to take more risks own.” (p. x)
that what people crave the through inspirational
most in a leader is someone leadership.
who can create for us a Leaders Eat Last describes
Circle of Safety. why it’s all so important to
Though a variety of do.
inspirational stories from
Sinek
Sinek’s Vision:
To “create a new generation of men and women who
understand that an organization’s success or failure is
based on leadership excellence and not managerial
acumen” (p. ix)…and to help build a world in which the
majority of people go home saying, “I love my job!”
Executive Book Summary: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
The problem ? Endorphins and dopamine can be addictive. Consuming nicotine, alcohol, drugs all
release high amounts of dopamine into the body’s system. Behaviors such as gambling and high usage
of social media have the same affect. Performance-driven organizations can become addicted to
numbers when they are constantly striving to ‘hit the goal.’ Without proper leadership, this
achievement is often at the expensive of others.
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Executive Book Summary: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Endorphins and dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are not the only chemicals Mother Nature gave
humans to help us survive. There is one other important to the biological understanding of leadership:
cortisol.
therefore controllable. A
Integrity Matters
#3 Trust is vital. When we suspect leaders of dishonesty or neglect to take
responsibility for their actions, our Circle of Safety shrinks. If during war, a
s
soldier hesitates after questioning an officer’s decision, people could die.
They need to have complete trust in their officer to follow them into the foxhole. Although
corporate decisions are not often a matter of life and death, the same is true for every
organization. In the words of Sinek, “Leadership is about integrity, honesty, and accountability. All
components of trust…to be a true leaders, to engender deep trust and loyalty, starts with telling the
truth.” (p150)
“We don’t just trust people to obey the rules, we also trust that they know when to break them.”
(p 155)
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Executive Book Summary: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Friends Matter
In order to truly lead, leaders need to spend time with those that they serve.
#4
They need to establish positive connections because “enemies fight [but] friends
cooperate.” (p 162) Cooperation – a means of working together, regardless of
opinion, allows entities to not only reach a common goal, but to show progression.
“Like any relationship, some [people] will get along, and some won’t. But in time, cooperation will
happen.” (p 165)
“When a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers,
then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the
right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.” (p 177)
gains.
In order to combat abstraction,
one must manage the
In Leaders Eat Last, Sinek abstraction. This can be done
reveals the concept of by following five simple rules: (p 115)
abstraction with Joseph 1. Bring people together.
Stalin’s infamous statement 2. Keep it manageable.
that “The death of one man is a 3. Meet the people you help. “Great leaders sacrifice the
tragedy…the death of a million 4. Give them time, not just numbers to save the
is a statistic.” Intrinsically, all money. people, because when
leaders should know that it is 5. Be patient. push comes to shove,
imperative to put people first, Leadership is difficult because numbers won’t save you,
but so many corporate leaders you can’t give your time and
fail to do so. By focusing on
people will. ” (p.110)
energy to everyone. This is why
numbers before people, poor you have to trust others to
trust others to trust others.
Great leaders empower the 5
levels of management and the
managers become leaders
Executive Book Summary: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek wrote his first book, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take
Action, in 2009. Since then, he has become a well-known motivational speaker making
notable appearances on TED.com and 99u.com. Sinek popularized the leadership
concept of the ‘golden circle’ of human motivation. With a degree in Cultural
Anthropology, Sinek teaches Strategic Communications at Columbia University, New York.
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2016. Print.
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BECOME A LEADER
“Each of us has a responsibility to keep the Circle of Safety strong. We must all start today to do little things
for the good of others…one day at a time. Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” (p 216)