Tribes
We need you to lead us
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4.3 • 35 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller that redefined what it means to be a leader.
Since it was first published, Seth Godin's visionary book has helped tens of thousands of leaders turn a scattering of followers into a loyal tribe. If you need to rally fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists or readers around an idea, this book will demystify the process.
It's human nature to seek out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political or even musical. Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost and time. Social media gives anyone who wants to make a difference the tools to do so.
With his signature wit and storytelling flair, Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead.
If you think leadership is for other people, think again-leaders come in surprising packages. Consider Joel Spolsky and his international tribe of scary-smart software engineers. Or Gary Vaynerchuk, a wine expert with a devoted following of enthusiasts. Chris Sharma led a tribe of rock climbers up impossible cliff faces, while Mich Mathews, a VP at Microsoft, ran her internal tribe of marketers from her cube in Seattle.
Tribes will make you think-really think-about the opportunities to mobilise an audience that are already at your fingertips. It's not easy, but it's easier than you think.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Short on pages but long on repetition, this newest book by Godin (Purple Cow) argues that lasting and substantive change can be best effected by a tribe: a group of people connected to each other, to a leader and to an idea. Smart innovators find or assemble a movement of similarly minded individuals and get the tribe excited by a new product, service or message, often via the Internet (consider, for example, the popularity of the Obama campaign, Facebook or Twitter). Tribes, Godin says, can be within or outside a corporation, and almost everyone can be a leader; most are kept from realizing their potential by fear of criticism and fear of being wrong. The book's helpful nuggets are buried beneath esoteric case studies and multiple reiterations: we can be leaders if we want, "tribes" are the way of the future and change is good. On that last note, the advice found in this book should be used with caution. "Change isn't made by asking permission," Godin says. "Change is made by asking forgiveness, later." That may be true, but in this economy and in certain corporations, it may also be a good way to lose a job.
Customer Reviews
Exceptional strategic And principle based business thinker
Seth Godin once again proves what an Exceptional strategic And principle based business thinker he really is here.
Exploring the themes of Leadership, Innovation, Change vs stasis with his customarily concise, yet thought -through style, in easy-to digest nuggets, this really is a book in the style of (and in touch with) the early 21st century.
I think it will be a book that repays regular revisiting and reflecting on its contents.
For an iBook cost of £1.99, this has to be fantastic value too.
If there were six stars I'd give it that
This book is far better than this review I'm about to write. It completely changed the way I saw the world and my career. It's like I finally found the missing piece of the jigsaw. I made more sense of my life reading this book than I did with hundreds of pounds of life coaching.