Tribes (2008) (edit title/settings)

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• Seth Godin: Add a description of this character.
• Avanzino
• Brad
• Nathan Winograd

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• “Average stuff is taken for granted, not talked about, and certainly not sought out”

• “If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader”

• “If you think leadership is only for other people, you're wrong”

• “Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be”

• “Life's too short to fight the forces of change”

• “Life's too short to hate what you do all day”

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• Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.

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• The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

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• Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

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• People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. What leaders do: they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change.

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• Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

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• So great leaders don’t try to please everyone. Great leaders don’t water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

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• The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.

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• Leaders have followers. Managers have employees. Managers make widgets. Leaders make change.

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• 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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• Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread. Marketing elects presidents, and marketing raises money for charity. Marketing also determines if the CEO stays or goes (Carly Fiorina learned this the hard way). Most of all, marketing influences markets. Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about engaging with the tribe and delivering products and services with stories that spread.

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• Wildpedia

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Seth Godin (Author)

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• Dewey: 658.4092

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling › By Topic › Leadership
• Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
• Books › Business & Investing › Management & Leadership › Leadership