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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us MP3 CD – Unabridged, 22 April 2014
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- ASIN : 1491514736
- Publisher : Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (22 April 2014)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 9781491514733
- ISBN-13 : 978-1491514733
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 13.97 x 0.64 cm
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About the Author
Seth Godin is the author of twelve bestselling books, a popular blogger and a successful entrepreneur. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages. He founded Squidoo.com, one of the hundred most popular websites in the United States. Godin has been a columnist for Fast Company and the Harvard Business Review and has given thousands of keynote speeches for companies, governments and non-profit organizations.
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I found this was a good book, but reading it made me realise I already had the qualities talked about and there for didn't learn much from it. If you want to know if you are the type of person who can lead a tribe worth the read.
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are you in business and spending money on marketing? if so this is worthy of a few hours of your time, what makes a leader? what make a hey person of influence. Read this one and go out and change the world oh and btw it's not about selling its about the vision
Reviewed in Australia on 30 August 2019
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Just harped on about the one theme, felt it lacked any depth
Reviewed in Australia on 8 July 2015
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I always learn something or get inspired by Seth Godin. He's done it again. Cause a ruckus and do something new.
Reviewed in Australia on 18 March 2019
Whether a business owner or employee, you still LEAD in one way or another, this book tells you how you do so and the importance of your role! Love it!
Reviewed in Australia on 4 August 2016
I started a bit if a sceptic and almost didn't finish it - too vague, general and not enough unique insights. It improved and I did finish it! It was worth the perseverance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Four hours later and I’m changed forever.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2017Verified Purchase
This book was recommended in a business seminar that I attended recently. I downloaded it straight away. Pondering on what direction to take my business in, it was the obvious book to read. It made me realise why I was stuck, not knowing where to focus my efforts. I was afraid of reaching out to and leading my tribe. This book made me realise that what I was in fact resisting is stifling responsibilities of management. A great leader is creative with the subtleties of leadership, is an enabler, a pioneer of change and progress. Thank you Seth Godin for helping to fill the void.
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Rj MacIntosh
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tribe or Tribes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2018Verified Purchase
I BOUGHT THIS BOOK for three main reasons: Seth Godin has a good reputation in the blogging world; I had heard him on Tribes in a TED talk; and I was looking for some helpful basics on how to think about putting a Blog community of supporters together.
My focus isessentially on book writing, reviewing, publishing and marketing, so initially I found Tribes less helpful than I’d expected.
In historical and anthropological terms, a tribe is "a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognised leader". (Google defn.)
A traditional tribal group generally has no written language, only the spoken word. and not unusually, there are different recognised roles for men and women (and children) in traditional societies.
But I also understand the general direction in which Godin’s 'Tribes’ is heading, and with a different definition: "A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea". Godin's understanding of present-day tribes in advanced societies focuses on members who are in possession of sophisticated hardware and software to create on-line (rather than face to face) communities. These are Godin's ‘Tribes’ who might never meet face-to-face, and are vastly different to older, anthropological communities where the lives of tribal members are constantly at risk and total commitment to a tribe is vital.
For one thing, in the new world of Godin's ‘Tribes’, we can simultaneously belong to any number of different tribes if we so choose. We can drop in and out as each one chooses. The commitment level feels very different, as the modern ‘Tribes’ are much more communities of mutual interest than communities of kinship. With so much done for free and given freely, creating a new Tribe becomes, in Godin's words 'an act of generosity'.
What struck me most is the role of leadership in the Tribes that Godin refers to.
Here, leadership is not traditional command and control, etc, but someone (or someones) who has the vision, pursues it, and draws together a community of mutual interest for the journey. It takes a great deal of leadership vision and commitment to start a new Tribe, which presumably is what every present-day author now needs to do; and the new tools are, in essence, the shifting landscape of social media platforms.
So the encouragement and vision that Godin gives is worth the 4 stars I’ve given 'Tribes'.
But, whether I am closer to my own goal to draw together and createa new ‘Tribe’ around a new theme that has multiple dimensions, is still far from clear! - Rob Mackintosh
My focus isessentially on book writing, reviewing, publishing and marketing, so initially I found Tribes less helpful than I’d expected.
In historical and anthropological terms, a tribe is "a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognised leader". (Google defn.)
A traditional tribal group generally has no written language, only the spoken word. and not unusually, there are different recognised roles for men and women (and children) in traditional societies.
But I also understand the general direction in which Godin’s 'Tribes’ is heading, and with a different definition: "A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea". Godin's understanding of present-day tribes in advanced societies focuses on members who are in possession of sophisticated hardware and software to create on-line (rather than face to face) communities. These are Godin's ‘Tribes’ who might never meet face-to-face, and are vastly different to older, anthropological communities where the lives of tribal members are constantly at risk and total commitment to a tribe is vital.
For one thing, in the new world of Godin's ‘Tribes’, we can simultaneously belong to any number of different tribes if we so choose. We can drop in and out as each one chooses. The commitment level feels very different, as the modern ‘Tribes’ are much more communities of mutual interest than communities of kinship. With so much done for free and given freely, creating a new Tribe becomes, in Godin's words 'an act of generosity'.
What struck me most is the role of leadership in the Tribes that Godin refers to.
Here, leadership is not traditional command and control, etc, but someone (or someones) who has the vision, pursues it, and draws together a community of mutual interest for the journey. It takes a great deal of leadership vision and commitment to start a new Tribe, which presumably is what every present-day author now needs to do; and the new tools are, in essence, the shifting landscape of social media platforms.
So the encouragement and vision that Godin gives is worth the 4 stars I’ve given 'Tribes'.
But, whether I am closer to my own goal to draw together and createa new ‘Tribe’ around a new theme that has multiple dimensions, is still far from clear! - Rob Mackintosh
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Sue Cartwright
5.0 out of 5 stars
Build a tribe and make something truly remarkable happen
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2018Verified Purchase
Did you ever feel so passionate about something you wanted to start a movement.
I know I have and this book will show you that the world needs people like you and me to do just that. The world needs people with well meaning passion to bring like-minded people together to find new ways of being, new ways of living, new ways of making the most out of this beautiful world we can call our own.
Have you ever heard the one about 'no man is an island' and how much more we can achieve if we do things together, if we join forces to collaborate to achieve things we know are right and we want for ourselves and our communities. This book will encourage you to step off your island and gather your people to you. How to reach out to people who are hungry to make connections and change things for the better.
Do you ever feel you are sleep-walking through life and it's passing you by far too quickly. That one day you'll look up and it will be too late to do anything meaningful that you can look back on and treasure. This book will show you how you can't afford to keep on complying and accepting the status quo, making do and putting up with things that get you down and make your life a misery.
If you have a passion for what you want to do and the drive to make it happen, there is a tribe of fellow employees, or customers, or investors, or readers, just waiting for you to connect them with each other and lead them where they want to go.
Go build your tribe and make something truly remarkable happen!
I know I have and this book will show you that the world needs people like you and me to do just that. The world needs people with well meaning passion to bring like-minded people together to find new ways of being, new ways of living, new ways of making the most out of this beautiful world we can call our own.
Have you ever heard the one about 'no man is an island' and how much more we can achieve if we do things together, if we join forces to collaborate to achieve things we know are right and we want for ourselves and our communities. This book will encourage you to step off your island and gather your people to you. How to reach out to people who are hungry to make connections and change things for the better.
Do you ever feel you are sleep-walking through life and it's passing you by far too quickly. That one day you'll look up and it will be too late to do anything meaningful that you can look back on and treasure. This book will show you how you can't afford to keep on complying and accepting the status quo, making do and putting up with things that get you down and make your life a misery.
If you have a passion for what you want to do and the drive to make it happen, there is a tribe of fellow employees, or customers, or investors, or readers, just waiting for you to connect them with each other and lead them where they want to go.
Go build your tribe and make something truly remarkable happen!
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MikeyT
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not Seth's best work
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2017Verified Purchase
A collection of thoughts and blog posts. Didn't really develop the idea of building a tribe or how to do it. Not Seth's best work. Buy his, 'Icarus Deception' instead
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Sacha Black
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Cracking book to inspire leaders
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2017Verified Purchase
Good book, lots of common sense in there about leadership. Did he tell me anything I didn't know, not sure. But I definitely feel inspired after reading it. I like to think of myself as a heretic, which is why the book resounded so well with me. I agreed with his philosophy and loved all the examples in the book too. It was amazing and awe inspiring to read about so many different leaders - ones who's businesses I already knew of and yet hadn't heard their stories. This is a great book for anyone who has an idea and wants to lead a change.
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