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Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe

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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