Book Review: Tribes
Book Reviews September 7th, 2009We Need You to Lead Us
I recently read Tribes and its the first book I’ve read by Godin, believe it or not. I definitely want to get into a few more of his titles now since this book had some real gems in it on leadership. The message throughout that book is that there are many ways to connect a group of people together for a common purpose and today’s technology, especially the web enable so much of that to happen. It allows the formation of like minded people or “Tribes” that can collectively work together and create a movement for change.
Godin highlights a few areas of why business has changed and what Tribes enable people to do now. A few points here really stood out for me and they are about how companies expect more people to lead than they ever used to. Leaders are expected much more now at all levels than classic organizations where only few were expected to lead everyone else. This is encouraging to anyone to be more involved as a leader. Another point is about, how much influence and impact individuals actually have now on areas needing leadership, new products and just the rate that business operates. Things change much more quickly than ever before in business and this opens many doors for new leadership to exist at all levels. The final one of these points for me was about how exciting and fun leadership and new innitiatives can actually be and that so many people want to be involved in them. This leaves many opportunities for anyone to help collect and lead a tribe toward a common goal and common passions and aspirations. All these points show the benefits and need for more and more tribes and Godin does a fantastic job of calling out his readers to step into these so called “Tribes” and make an impact directly.
If you are interested in leadership and new business practices and in any way wanting to expand your own influence, then “Tribes” by Godin is a worthy book. It was packed full of good advice and great challenges to help intice you to do more than learn about it, read a book about it and understand tribes, but to actually go and get involved in them and to become more of a tribal leader yourself. The content of this book is really packed in and condensed as well, which makes for a short read yet there are many key messages and phrases that really deliver a powerful punch to inspire more leadership. Keep this in mind as Godin leaves out any practical advice on HOW to lead or make these tribes a success, he simply puts the challenge out their and leaves the responsibility solely up to each tribal leader, just how it should be.
I definitely recommend this one to anyone looking for more leadership ideas, inspiration and simple to those who wish to explore a bit more of the social media and internet style of communities, as this is explored throughout the book.
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September 7th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
I like what you’ve said here. I made sure to read this a while back due to a few reasons, but I have to say the cover is a great additional reason. It is cool how that one person in the middle is running the tribe around him.
Your point about how more leadership is expected of people is a solid one. The wall of acceptance is a bit higher because people that are not up for leading big are weeded out. There are more variables in play at this time.
September 8th, 2009 at 2:36 AM
It sounds like a great book about leadership. I will check it up soon in a bookstore.
Thanks for the review, Mike.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:28 AM
Seth Godin as an absolute legend, and it comes as no surpise to me that he got a good review. This one is definitely going onto my must-read list. Good relevant reading for the wannabe internet entrepreneur.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:46 PM
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October 16th, 2009 at 11:48 AM
I know Seth Godin is a great marketer and i regularly read his blog. Hope to read this book someday.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:58 PM
This a book is killer! I would suggest anyone that looking to succeed in just about anything would take away just one solid and good truth to make them more effective for tomorrow.
December 9th, 2009 at 5:14 AM
it sounds like a great book about leadership.
December 13th, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Loved this book really gets to why bloging is so spectacular it is a way of building loyal tribes. Those tribes then can be marketed to or send in the direction of other worthy goals. Go on my tribe master…
May 18th, 2011 at 10:32 AM
You put up the book review idea on leadership in a simple and catchy way.Awesome job.I am impressed.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:07 AM
I read Purple Cow a while ago based on your recommendation and thought it was excellent. I have since bought several copies for friends/colleagues. No doubt Tribes will be a good read.