Stage Four? Stage Four? Anyone? Anyone?

March 30, 2008

Several years ago, I had dinner with a David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. His picture is on the cover of his book, and his company is named after him, the David Allen Company. He’s a spiritual guy, a Stage Four leader—clearly not interested in the ego boost building a business empire. “Why did [...]

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Tribalism is Alive and Well

March 12, 2008

Roger Cohen of the New York Times wrote about how tribalism is alive and thriving in all aspects of our world, only further empowered by technology: We’re beyond tribalism, right? Wrong…. The Internet opens worlds and minds, but also offers opinions to reinforce every prejudice. You’re never alone out there; some idiot will always back [...]

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Women and Tribal Leadership

March 4, 2008

My passion is women’s leadership. There is no better audience for this book than women in business. Women have had a challenging time finding positive and supportive role models in business leadership to emulate, or a way to leverage their unique abilities to be Tribal Leaders. Helping women to lead from who they are, with [...]

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The New Wave of Spirituality: Work

February 28, 2008

I had more time to think about the Pew research study on religion than most people. One of their pollsters phoned me when I was home sick, and since I had nothing better to do, answered what seemed like an hour of questions about my past religious activities, and my beliefs today. What I didn’t [...]

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Recession-proofing your Business – Part 1

February 23, 2008

Recession Proof Your Business Is there a secret to so-called “recession-proofing” in business? Can you still improve performance, products, and productivity when the going gets tough? The answer to both these questions is a resounding yes…if you know how to build a world-class culture. The process is straightforward, and any company would do well to [...]

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Where have all the heroes gone? An open letter to Roger Clemens

February 21, 2008

Long ago, a slam dunk first ballot Hall of Famer got caught doing a no-no. It doesn’t even matter what he did. What does matter is that he lied about it. And, though he technically got away with it, everybody knew that he lied about it. In that moment of lying he became tainted. Nothing [...]

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American tribes reaching for…coke, Clinton and Obama

February 20, 2008

A few Sundays ago, we gathered as a nation of tribes—groups of family, friends, work buddies, neighbors, fellow Giants or Patriots fans—to watch the big game and experience the Super Bowl ads. Since our founding days as a nation, people made all important decisions in these groups, including choosing leaders. George Washington wasn’t the brightest [...]

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Epiphany to Stage Four.

January 31, 2008

Tribal Leadership’s been in stores for a little over a week, and the response has been beyond encouraging. One group of people is responding to the business case for Stage Four tribes—higher profits, increased productivity, greater shareholder value. B school stuff. Another group, smaller and more reflective says that the chapter on the epiphany of [...]

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Welcome to the Tribal Leadership Blog

January 15, 2008

On behalf of the authors, we would like to welcome you to the making of a new tribe. A tribe that has not yet met itself, as such. In this awareness and at this cyber meeting ground we are looking forward to meeting you, listening (reading) to what you have to say, to share, to [...]

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