Tribal Leadership
5.12.2016
Today I read a summary of the book Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan.
What would your life be like if you could come to work every day and worked on something that lit a fire in your heart? What if everybody you worked with had the same desire and passion as you? What if the work you did, day in and day out, had an impact not only in your workplace, but left a proverbial dent in the universe?
A tribe is nothing new, every organization has tribes. Logan explores how a tribe is at a specific level based on how the people in the tribe interact with one another. There are 5 stages of tribes.
Which stage is your tribe at?
Stage 1 Tribes, which account for 2% of the world’s corporate tribes, is a group of people who think that “life sucks”.
Stage 2 Tribes, which account for 25% of the world’s corporate tribes, is a group of people who think that “my life sucks”, and in particular, because I have to be at work with you idiots.
Stage 3 Tribes, which account for 49% of the world’s corporate tribes, is a group of people who walk around thinking – and sometimes saying – “I’m great”. These people and tribes have a lot of energy, but none of it being directed to a common goal.
Stage 4 Tribes, which account 22% of the world’s corporate tribes, is a group of people united by the language like “We are great, and they are not”.
Stage 5 Lastly, stage 5 tribes, which account for 2% of the world’s corporate tribes, is a group of people united by a vision of changing the world, where there is no talk of competition, only of changing the world.
The first step, as the authors notes, is always to understand which stage your tribe is in, because their experience shows that you’ll only be successful by moving up the ladder one stage at a time.
If you want know more, you can read a summary of this book here today (you’ll need to create a free account first): https://readitfor.me/timothy-kinane
Which stage would you like your tribe to be at?
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Tim is a Consultant to Business, Government and Not-for-Profits Organizations specializing in innovative and challenging ways for organizations to survive, to thrive and to build their teams.
