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Tribal Leadership
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Tribal Leadership

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

HarperBusiness, 2008 plus...


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Tribes naturally form within organizations. Wherever people gather to live and work, groups of between 20 and 150 members coalesce – parallel to villages within nations – and progress through five stages of development. Culture consultants David Logan and John King, writing with physician Halee Fischer-Wright, teach you how tribes and proficient tribal leadership can help you work and play well with others and bolster your career. The authors conducted extensive research on corporate tribes and interviewed many business leaders about the five-stage evolution of tribes within their organizations. Though the report seems somewhat less concrete in identifying exactly how people coalesce to form tribes, it makes for accessible reading, certainly compared to most organizational sociology. getAbstract finds that this exploration of tribes and teams can open readers’ eyes to the way people function within groups. Managers will find it revelatory, as will all those who can succeed only by working and playing well with others.

Take-Aways

  • Organizations inevitably develop internal tribes – groups of between 20 and 150 members with interlocking ties.
  • These tribes go through five stages of development.
  • At Stage One, tribe members believe that life is awful; they feel paranoid and helpless.

About the Authors

Dave Logan and John King founded CultureSync, a consulting company. Logan teaches at the University of Southern California. King lectures internationally. CultureSync partner Halee Fischer-Wright, a physician, teaches at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.


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    N. O. 8 years ago
    It's more important recognize and identify the tribes in the company for develop and achieve new opportunities.
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    M. S. 9 years ago
    Great Culture to implement within your team inside of your office & the organization. If you want more you have to become more.
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    T. B. 9 years ago
    Interesting theory how organizations develop internal tribes. People do get caught in stages and they have a difficult time moving on. It's when the people that get stuck move on the organization thrives.

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