Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us | Seth Godin

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	Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Seth Godin Portfolio Hardcover, 2008 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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it's simple....together we can make a difference.....i only spend my time writing positive reviews....i am a fan of seth's philosophy....i think he is getting it right more than most....this book is a continuation of his observations and a conceptual roadmap....i back up this belief by living many of his ideas......he believes in the concept of a value driven economy and world produced with respect and all sorts of integrity..... i would also highly recommend tom peters books along those lines....if they write it...i read it

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Read this book if...

A. You are a leadership junkie and read lots of leadership books to just keep yourself honed to a sharp edge. (You will immediately recognize the truths that are in the book)

or

B. You know nothing about leadership.

I had a client that asked me to recommend a book for a leadership conference. I gave him a couple of recommendations and he responded "We want something light and easy to read while on an airplane" Light and easy was the primary criteria. Tribes is the answer to the question.

Bud Lite...Miller Lite...Tribes is Leadership Lite. Nice antidotes around fundamental truths that have existed for hundreds of years.

The book could be shorter or the stories deeper or courses of actions could be illustrated.

Why Five Stars?...I am a leadership junkie.

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Great book

A simple (and great) way to show that the choice of being a leader just depend on us.

A Stimulating Read...

Seth Godin's Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is a stimulating read for anybody interested in marketing new ideas and stepping into a leadership role in today's fast changing world.

Many of Seth's ideas revolve around new technologies of communication, especially the Internet, but note that right at the beginning of the book he emphasizes that,

"You don't need a keyboard to lead... you only need the desire to make something happen!" - p. 6

Use the new media to communicate your passion. Leadership above all is about belief and passion - or belief IN your passion.

Seth talks a lot about faith, belief, religion and heretics in this book, with Martin Luther acting as heretic-in-chief. In today's market place it is "heretics" who are rewarded; leadership is not about management but about CHANGE - the kind of change that needs an heretical thinker to initiate.

The pace of change has made the pursuit of stability more of an illusion than ever. Not only is stability an illusion, the rush away from stability is an opportunity for you to become a leader and initiate change, because the market requires change and that requires leadership.

So why are there so few leaders? Seth suggests that it is because most of us have an exaggerated fear of failure which prevents us from stepping out from the crowd.

In one of the many stimulating examples he scatters through the book, Seth discusses a literal "leap of faith" by citing Chris Scharma's innovative rock climbing technique of letting go and leaping upwards... Chris Scharma has fallen headlong into the sea a number of times, but he has also transformed the concept of what it is possible for climbers to achieve.

That is the essence of the message behind this book. Stop "sheepwalking" - stop being afraid to fail or make mistakes - step up and become a leader! If you think you lack the charisma to become a leader, consider this:

"Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic."

Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, page 127.

Those who object that Seth does not show us HOW to become leaders will not appreciate what Seth has to say on page 70:

"Some of you are itching to ask me exactly the wrong questions"... one of which is:

"'How do I do this?'"

It is the kind of question that employees ask managers, but leaders are initiators, not managers.

A similar objection could be that there no in-depth case studies of leadership... However, there are plenty of examples of people who have become leaders of tribes. The point is that if you want to know more about what it is to be a tribal leader you will have to TAKE THE INITIATIVE and do a Google search for some of the characters who appear in the pages of Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - in other words, you will have to begin to act like a leader (by taking initiative) in order to discover what it is to be a leader. Neat!

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us does not get bogged down in detail. Instead, it offers provocative and stimulating suggestions for anybody who wants to develop into a leader in a fast moving, plugged in, ever changing world.

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Platte aarde ontmoet leiderschap

Seth Godin 's boek Tribes is een soort The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century meets Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition 101. Godin ziet in doelgroepen Tribes èn de noodzaak voor gericht leiderschap op die groepen. Anders zijn het slechts crowds, waaruit best aardige initiatieven kunnen komen, maar waar geen duurzaamheid blijkt. Een ander paradigma, waar de auteur graag en bij herhaling gebruik van maakt, is het verschil tussen religie en geloof (faith). Ten opzichte van een strikt stelsel met regels en gebruiken zie t hij liever een levend geloof, met inspiratie, volharding en passie. Voor de rebel, de ketter (heretic), de luis in de pels moet er ruimte zijn. Nieuw is beter in de optiek van Godin. En dus zijn oude business modellen als die van platenmaatschappijen terecht passé. Het aloude Amerikaanse paradigma dat groter ook beter is, heeft voor Godin evengoed afgedaan. Er is ruimte voor nichegroepen, zoals ook Anderson in Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More propageert.

Leiderschap is een anderen rode draad in het boek (vandaar de subtitel We need you to lead us, dat zo een beginregel uit een christelijk lied zou kunnen zijn). Leiders worden niet gemaakt, maar kiezen zelf om te leiden. Dat moet wel gepaard gaan met passie voor een groep en een doel. Anders, bijvoorbeeld aan de hand van een checklist uitzoeken van een tribe en daar maar het leiderschap op je nemen, werkt niet.

Godin gebruikt diverse voorbeelden, zoals de bedreiging van een eenhoorn voor een ballonnenfabriek of de lotgevallen van het impresiaat van The Beatles. Met Tribes biedt Godin me geen radcaal nieuwe inzichten, maar mengt ingrediënten van andere populaire schrijvers van managementboeken tot een aantrekkelijk hapje. Het audioboek neemt ruim 3 uur tijd van je in beslag.

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