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Unfortunately, not all tribes are positive ones. For example, in his article How America Lost Its Mind , Kurt Anderson points to the internet as a major contributor to a rising extremism and disconnect from reality in American politics.

In essence, Anderson is saying the same thing as Godin: The internet makes it possible to find like-minded people a tribe no matter what your thoughts and beliefs are. Godin points out that there are already countless tribes in the world waiting for the right leaders to come along. Usually, these are tribes that are too stuck in their status quo to achieve their visions—for example, a company that fails to turn a profit, or a small group that fails to attract new members. Instead of building a tribe from the ground up, a visionary leader can turn a stagnating group into an exciting new movement.

Rumelt gives a clear example of the invigorating effect that a new leader can have on a group:. In the mid-to-late s, Apple was struggling badly. Such people believe that simply having more members will somehow make their tribe better. Recall that a tribe is a group of people with a shared vision and the drive to achieve it. Furthermore, the best way to grow your tribe is to have members with strong connections to non-members; those members will do your recruiting for you.

In Purple Cow , Godin goes into more detail about how passionate members of a tribe can spread your ideas and recruit new followers.

Those people will then convince their friends and family that your idea is worth adopting—that your tribe is worth joining. Recall that one of the things a tribe needs is a means of communication. However, there are actually four different kinds of communication within a tribe, and all four are necessary:.

Godin asserts that one of the surest ways to improve your tribe is to make sure that those four types of communication are convenient, comfortable, and effective. In The Effective Executive, author Peter Drucker suggests leaders ensure open, two-way communication between leadership and members by:. Taking responsibility for their own contributions and outcomes. Asking members to do the same.

Each person should have the chance to say what he can contribute to the group and how leaders could make the best use of those contributions. Drucker says that companies which are one type of tribe often hobble themselves by only focusing on the first type of communication: leader to members. Or consider the case of Avinash Kaushik. His book on Google Analytics might not sound scintillating, but it is one of the fastest selling books of the year.

Avinash accomplished this by building a tribe, a worldwide tribe of computer geeks and marketers who connected with him and with each other. His idea, so clearly presented, stands for something.

And his generosity translates into reciprocity and attention. People get the logo tattooed on their legs. Are people tattooing your logo on their legs? Remember the famous Groucho Marx line? I call it the reverse groucho. One option is to make your tribe tighter. The Hare Krishas work hard to tighten the tribe. Defining dress and diet and lifestyle makes it more likely that the tribe is committed. At the same time, it creates a huge hurdle for someone to join the tribe. Another option is to make your tribe bigger.

Oprah, on the other hand, makes it really easy to join her tribe. Just turn on the TV or buy a book she recommends. Every tribe leaders has to think about issues of exclusion and inclusion.

But it might not be what you want. These are questions, not answers. Duran Duran markets the old way. Compare that to the Grateful Dead, which sells more records, even though they disbanded years ago. Tribes amplify your efforts. Would someone tattoo the name of your charity on the back of their head? Of course, not all the dots connect. The thing that might surprise you is that there are almost no copyable tactics in the book.

You can, for example, build statues for members of your tribe, celebrate them and embrace them. Al Gore tried in vain to find a tribe to get himself more than enough votes in , but failed But when he shifted gears, he found a natural tribe, a group that was just waiting for him. The climate project ran a school that trained thousands of people to give his presentation around the country. People traveled thousands of miles to meet each other and to be trained and certified, and now, years after the movie, continue to teach his message everywhere.

From Bob in Utah to Cameron Diaz Steve Jobs leads a tribe. Bill Gates just made software. Tribes, on the other hand, push you and stick with you and hate you and then forgive you. Men and women of all ages follow these ridiculous workouts Not in fancy gyms, but in garages or wherever they can gather.

Day and night Until their hands bleed And then they connect online, for reinforcement and bragging rights Laura Fitton has built a profitable consulting company, while working from home with her two kids. She did using nothing but Twitter. Now she has thousands of people following her on Twitter, connecting to each other and building businesses around her insights into social media.

Think that makes it easier for her to find paying clients? Jerry Sternin leveraged the work of Marian Zeitlin and saved tens of thousands of children in Vietnam with a simple discovery.

Amplify the natural leaders and tribes will form. They do it because they belong to the tribe. Etsy leads, Etsy establishes the platform, Etsy connects, Etsy then smartly gets out of the way.

Interesting note: lots of Etsy buyers are also Etsy sellers. The Longaberger basket company this is actually their headquarters building is organized around building and sustaining the tribe.

How you can actually build and grow a tribe. Consider the Kindle, for example. It could have been far more, because it has the power to connect tribes of readers, to build connections where none used to be. Reading a book is primarily a solo activity, but the Kindle could have transformed that into something done by a group. No one joins a tribe with a leader beloved by all, no one spends time on a movement that has nothing to prove and nowhere to go.

Do you work in an organization bigger or more bureaucratic than the Defense Department? Are you lower on the hierarchy than Thomas Barnett was?

And yet, one individual, at the bottom of the totem pole, hundreds of miles from the Pentagon, armed only with a powerpoint, changed the entire organization. Many marketers want everyone to be in their tribe.

Harry Chapin played the music business game very well. It was radio that made his career. Songs that worked on radio spread on radio and reached people who had few choices in what to listen to.

When those songs resonated, he had a hit. Instead, great musicians lead tribes, connecting fans to one another and giving those fans ideas or souvenirs or events that improve their lives. What does Jimmy Buffett actually do for a living? He organizes a rolling party of Parrotheads. She sold more than in twenty minutes. For so many years, I begged people in the music business to measure emotional impact rather than units sold.

People like music No better way to help tribemembers spread the word. Photo by jamesjosephimages. Three ways to build a tribe: Find the lonely, connect the seekers or create a new one where none existed. One way to build a tribe is to connect people who think they are alone, disconnected. Fast Company grew like a rocket When you lead people who want to be led, and connect people who want to be connected, you win by serving.

However, sometimes you can invent a tribe. People who thought they had nothing in common, but discover that they do share a connection this is from an Obama rally. Nike built a new tribe. No, Nike built it. He merely led them. Yet the idea leads a tribe. Nobody forms a tribe around mediocre. No one aligns themselves with others in celebration of the ordinary.

People who want to settle for good enough do it by themselves, not in a group. All he wanted was Bibles for everyone, in a language they could understand.

He pushed for a faith he believed in, and was punished by religious leaders in search of control. The reason any of us have a chance to lead a tribe is that most everyone else is sheepwalking This is what a heretic looks like. Robyn Waters was a heretic with a vision, and an organization Target willing to listen, at least for a while. Jim Morrison was also a heretic.

He was arrested and criticized and ignored and eventually became a hero. In order to make better sense of the slides you need to download the PowerPoint file — notes appear for each slide in the notes window. You'll even see me mentioned to my surprise on slide You have the slides and you have the notes, so go out and give this presentation yourself. Well done Seth — thanks for sharing this!

Posted at PM Permalink Comments 4. Sigh, it's not free in the UK apparently. Thanks for the tip Garr, Always good to get information on Itunes so it can go stright into the Ipod for listening in the car etcetc. Can I ask what the heck Seth was thinking by using audible.

I mean - it's great that he's giving away the audiobook for free.. But what I'm wondering about is:. The goal here is to get this audiobook out to as many people as possible, to spread word about the book, and Seth in general, correct? I can understand that Seth might like to build up his audience and collect the email addresses of the people who download the audiobook.

And frankly, I'd give this info to Seth in exchange for his potentially awesome content. I don't give a hoot about audible. What I can't understand is why Mr. Godin would put up all these barriers for people who just want to hear him, learn from him, and by downloading, support his career and spread information about him to all their colleagues.

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