Happy Monday!
This week’s book is
This book remarks a unique perspective on how to move people towards action. Here’s my top 10 takeaways:
1. Ownership
It takes two things to turn a group into a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
Transform the shared interest into a passionate goal and desire to change to increase the effectiveness of the tribe and its members.
2. Questioning
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
The marketplace rewards innovation: things that are fresh, stylish, remarkable, and new.
3. Leadership
Tribes are just waiting to be turned into movements.
What leaders do is they give people stories they can tell themselves. Stories about the future and about change.
4. Autonomy
When we envision our dream job, we see someone with control over what he does all day, having authority over his time.
We have factories because of human nature. We want stability and absence of responsibility that a job can give. ‘I’m doing what you told me to do’.
5. Fear
Levers are here. Proof is here. Power is here. The thing holding you back is fear. Not easy to admit but essential to understand.
The essence of leadership is being aware of your fear and seeing it in the people you wish to lead. It won’t go away but awareness is key.
6. Excellence
A remarkable product or service is like a purple cow. Brown cows are boring, purple ones are worth mentioning. Those ideas spread and organizations grow.
Great things get noticed.
7. Un-conformism
Past performance is no guarantee of future success. While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.
Avoid getting comfortable with what you have.
8. Humility
The secret to being wrong isn’t to avoid being wrong. The secret is being willing to be wrong, realizing that wrong isn’t fatal.
Do what you believe in. People will follow.
9. Resistance
The organizations that need innovation the most are the one that do the most to stop it from happening.
The largest enemy of change and leadership isn’t a no. It’s a not yet.
10. Congruence
People won’t follow you if they don’t believe you can get to where you say you’re going.
Walk your talk.
These were my top 10 takeaways on Tribes. What do you think?
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“Leading and connecting people and ideas. Something that people have wanted forever.”
— Seth Godin
Until Friday,
Andres Marin