Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Abstract

Leadership practices have gone through a perpetual cycle of change from kings, rulers, and lords as the anointed leaders (Great Man Theory) to behavioral theories that taught that people could learn the art of leadership through teaching and observation. Simon Sinek's book extends the motivation and job satisfaction of this second model into considering every worker "more like a family" member. [...]by simply "changing the environment in which people worked, the same people started acting differently toward each other. According to Sinek, many organizations are failing because their work has become a numbers game, rather than shifting their focus toward developing and understanding the needs of people who work in the organization.