This book describes leaders and leadership in terms of how they behave and how those they lead are affected by them. The biology and anthropology behind our societal compact with leaders are examined and put into terms easy to understand and agree with.

Concepts like the 'social contract' regarding how leaders get first choice of meat and mate, but are first to meet the enemy when trouble comes to the city gates, and how people abstracted to numbers are easy to abuse and disregard, but when people remain people in the 'circle of safety,' they are more apt to be preserved and protected.

I would recommend anyone who ever had a bad (or a great) boss read this book!