Tribes: We need you to lead us

Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another …so they follow.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that’s what leaders do.

Simple example: ten years ago, if you wanted to publish a book, you needed to find a publisher that would say yes. No publisher, no book. Today, of course, you can publish a book all by yourself. Just visit Lulu.com and you’re done. Without someone to say yes, all that’s left are unpublished writers who tell themselves no.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

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Credit isn’t the point. Change is.

As we saw earlier, it takes only two things to turn a group of people into a tribe: • A shared interest • A way to communicate The communication can be one of four kinds: • Leader to tribe • Tribe to leader • Tribe member to tribe member • Tribe member to outsider So a leader can help increase the effectiveness of the tribe and its members by • tra

Flynn Berry wrote that you should never use the word “opportunity.” It’s not an opportunity, it’s an obligation. I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.