Here’s my review just posted on GoodReads.com:
Just finished the audio book Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. Well worth the free download from Zappos.com but also available at Amazon.com. The book is not quite 5.5 hours and if you can’t get the free version, worth the purchase price. I plan to buy the hard copy as reference. Played on high speed on my iPod, I was able to finish it in one week’s daily commute.
The book leads the reader through five stages of tribal leadership with solid examples of each level for both individuals and organizations. Of special interest to me was the description of word choice as individuals move from lower to higher stages. Some of this is obvious (me/I to we). But a significant difference for stage five organizations is how they define the competition. Instead of identifying other organizations they tend to discuss the competition in terms of their noble cause. For example, “cancer” as competition instead of XYZ company.
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