Tribal Leadership
Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
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3.7 • 54 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.
“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.”
—Inc.
Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop—and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The authors, management consultants and partners of JeffersonLarsonSmith, offer a fascinating look at corporate tribes groups of 20 150 people within a company that come together on their own rather than through management decisions and how executives can use tribes to maximize productivity and profit. Drawing upon research from a 10-year study of more than 24,000 people in two dozen organizations, they argue that tribes have the greatest influence in determining how much and what quality work gets done. The authors identify the five stages of employee tribal development "Life sucks," "My life sucks," "I'm great and you're not," "We're great" and "Life is great" and offer advice on how to manage these groups. They also share insights from the health care, philanthropic, engineering, biotechnology and other industries and include key points lists for each chapter. Particularly useful is the Tribal Leader's Cheat Sheet, which helps determine and assess success indicators. Well written and enlightening, this book will be of interest to business professionals at all levels.
Customer Reviews
Thought-changing
This book will forever transform how you see your organization, think about it, behave in it. The authors' views of organizational culture make so much sense and explain it so simply it feels irresistibly right on target. And they give you the keys to making things better--simple tools that have people relating more, producing more with less effort and greater results. If you want to enjoy work more, you gotta read this book.
Thought provoking
This book is thought provoking and inspiring. Yes, it goes against the conventional old school thought of self preservation in business but that is just what many need to read about. You can go somewhere fast by yourself, but you go far with, "family," others. Definitely made me think about how I react toward others where I work but also how to inspire others and myself to be better for the company and those we serve.
Good book, but lousy proofreading
I am still working my way through this, but the number of proofreading errors is appalling. Things like "six hundred fifty dollars" instead of "six hundred and fifty thousand dollars" (at least, that's what I think it's supposed to say—who knows?), as well as sentences so garbled that the meaning is lost.
I expect the same attention to detail in an e-book that I expect in a dead-tree book. What gives, HarperCollins??? You should be embarrassed, and so should the authors for not catching this stuff on a final read-through.
Publish a corrected revision (at no charge to people who already own it) and I will re-write my review.