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Leaders Eat Last Name Institution Course Code and Title Instructor Date Leaders Eat Last ‘Leaders Eat Last’ is a book by Simon Sinek that takes a systemic and holistic view of leadership and organizational culture. The core idea is that a great leader cares more than anything else about the well-being and safety of people, therefore creating a trusting, cooperative environment and healthfully structured systems to contribute to. He uses examples across history and biology of how the best leaders and organizations have created this 'circle of safety' for the team. This aligns with the key principles of systems thinking: see the big picture, understand interconnections, and optimize the system rather than just its isolated components. The book resonates strongly with my understanding of systems thinking. It emphasizes how organizational outcomes emerge from the interactions and relationships between people, not just skills or technical knowledge. According to Sinek, by creating trusted environments, leaders can unlock the power of their teams to the fullest integrated system capacity (Sinek, 2014). This closely relates to the main concepts of systems thinking: feedback loops, alignment of the system's components to shared goals, and nurturing healthy system conditions. The examples...