Review: Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
By Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
# ISBN-10: 0061251305
# ISBN-13: 978-0061251306

PROS:

  • Provides a researched system of classifying organizations and businesses as "tribes" that is easy to apply.
  • Has useful ideas for helping people "tribe up" and improve their relations and improve organizational relations.
  • Very readable and understandable.
  • Doesn't pull punches on some of the conclusions.

CONS:

  • Some historical interpretations are arguable.

SUMMARY: Buy this book and read it unless you have no interest in community, leadership, and business.  In that case you're probably not even reading this blog.

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A Geek Icon’s Web Page

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Jeff Bridges is one of those understated geek icons – in many geeky films (Tron for the gods' sake), but also calmly going along and doing his thing.

His web page is a fount of awesome, and one of the most unique personal/professional pages I've seen.

Go and experience it.

– Steven Savage

The Fan To Pro Glossary

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A helpful guide to terms we use around here.  Updated 1/9/2010:

A
A.I.N.O. – Anime In Name Only.  Refers to things based on anime with none of what made the anime work, or things imitating anime.

C
CorpTechPocalype – The inevitable end of Corporate IT as it moves to SaaS, mobile, and outsourcing.  Comes from a series of two columns at 3 Geeks and A Law Blog (here and here), further commented on here.

Crush Object – Any company that the staff things is particularly awesome.  In Bonnie's case, eternally Sony.

E
Econogeek – A geek who is into economics, or a person who is geeky about economics.

Everything Wars – The name for the conflict going on between many companies that previously did not compete, but now do because of technical synergy.

G
Geekonomy – The ill-defined part of the economy that is dominated by Geekdom.  Includes media, technology, comics, video games, and whatever else the bloggers feel is vaguely related.

Geekonomics – Activity that affects the Geekonomy.  Also interesting news for Econogeeks.

P
"Three P's" – Politicans, Preachers, and Pundits.  The people Steve most often notes manage to botch things up while being moralizing.

Production Revolution – The ability that the internet and IT tools have given people to become published authors, artists, videographers, etc.

Progeek, Profan, Protaku – Terms for people who apply their hobbies professionally.