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Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe

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Leadership expert and management theorist Simon Sinek, explores how leaders can inspire cooperation, trust and change. In this significant TED talk he proposes the question: What makes a great leader? He attempts to answer this question by suggesting that good leaders make their employees feel secure by drawing them into a circle of trust. He means furthermore that creating trust and safety, though — especially in an uneven economy — means taking on big responsibility…

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