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Executive Programmes, Personal and Professional development
Executive Programmes, Personal and Professional development
"People want connection and growth and something new" - Seth Godin
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Product Details
LENGTH 3 hrs and 42 mins AUDIBLE RELEASE DATE 16/10/2008 PUBLISHER Audible, Inc. |
TRIBES by Seth Godin
Bella Enahoro
Product Description
As I move deeper into running my own businesses and take charge of how I live my life, this book was recommended to me by a friend. I had up until now not heard of Seth Godin but what a wonderful discovery.
Godin claims that humans need tribes – they are a way of enjoying shared interests and help us communicate them to each other. Tribes make our lives better – apparently we want to belong to tribes and we belong to many of them simultaneously. Tribes are not about stuff but about connection.
Tribes for Godin are fundamentally like-minded people who make the rules rather than follow them, creating the changes they believe in. Tribes use passion and ideas to lead as opposed to threats and bureaucracy to manage themselves.
The internet has brought us new tribes with whom to work, travel, buy, vote and discuss. With them we have new tools for communication ranging from Facebook, Ning, Meet up, Twitter, Squidoo, Basecamp, Craigs list to email.
Godin makes a distinction between a tribe and a factory. Factories are any organisation which cranks out a product or service with a measurable output while trying to keep costs as low as possible. It is a place where we are told what to do and how to do it.
Factories are about status quo, safety, security and the absence of responsibility – not bad except the safest jobs are not safe anymore. For Godin, Life's too short to fight the forces of change and too short to hate what you do all day
This is a book which maps out the idea of the 'everyman' as leader. All you need in order to be a leader is you, your vision and your passion. For Godin, your followers are a group of people just waiting to be energised and transformed by you and your vision. And guess what? It's up to you. No-one gives you permission or approval to lead.
So why doesn't everyone do it? Godin believes that people are afraid of blame and criticism and so are willing to put up with mediocity. But Godin claims being unhappy and mediocre is not only a waste of time but also painful.
The secret of leadership is to do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. And people will follow. But beware the forces for mediocrity will align against you.
This book is for those who are done 'sheepwalking' which Godin describes as being the 'outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them brain-dead jobs and enough fear to keep them in line'. If you're done living and working that way that you are managed by fear the 'I might get fired' syndrome, then this book is for you.
If you have ideas and want to turn them into tangible reality then Seth's work will point a way forward for you.
If you want to just keep your head down and make it to retirement, then this book is not for you. If you want to be told what to do and are happy to comply, then this book is not for you. For those people who are naturally compliant, this book paints a bleak picture. For those who seek only money from their work, they also will be unsettled by this book.
However, for those of us who live for meaning, purpose and passion and want to live our meaning, purpose and passion the way we want to, this book will help us find a route there - and a tribe in which to enjoy it.
See more of Seth's work - here http://www.squidoo.com/seth
Copyright ©Bella Enahoro Mar 2012
As I move deeper into running my own businesses and take charge of how I live my life, this book was recommended to me by a friend. I had up until now not heard of Seth Godin but what a wonderful discovery.
Godin claims that humans need tribes – they are a way of enjoying shared interests and help us communicate them to each other. Tribes make our lives better – apparently we want to belong to tribes and we belong to many of them simultaneously. Tribes are not about stuff but about connection.
Tribes for Godin are fundamentally like-minded people who make the rules rather than follow them, creating the changes they believe in. Tribes use passion and ideas to lead as opposed to threats and bureaucracy to manage themselves.
The internet has brought us new tribes with whom to work, travel, buy, vote and discuss. With them we have new tools for communication ranging from Facebook, Ning, Meet up, Twitter, Squidoo, Basecamp, Craigs list to email.
Godin makes a distinction between a tribe and a factory. Factories are any organisation which cranks out a product or service with a measurable output while trying to keep costs as low as possible. It is a place where we are told what to do and how to do it.
Factories are about status quo, safety, security and the absence of responsibility – not bad except the safest jobs are not safe anymore. For Godin, Life's too short to fight the forces of change and too short to hate what you do all day
This is a book which maps out the idea of the 'everyman' as leader. All you need in order to be a leader is you, your vision and your passion. For Godin, your followers are a group of people just waiting to be energised and transformed by you and your vision. And guess what? It's up to you. No-one gives you permission or approval to lead.
So why doesn't everyone do it? Godin believes that people are afraid of blame and criticism and so are willing to put up with mediocity. But Godin claims being unhappy and mediocre is not only a waste of time but also painful.
The secret of leadership is to do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. And people will follow. But beware the forces for mediocrity will align against you.
This book is for those who are done 'sheepwalking' which Godin describes as being the 'outcome of hiring people who have been raised to be obedient and giving them brain-dead jobs and enough fear to keep them in line'. If you're done living and working that way that you are managed by fear the 'I might get fired' syndrome, then this book is for you.
If you have ideas and want to turn them into tangible reality then Seth's work will point a way forward for you.
If you want to just keep your head down and make it to retirement, then this book is not for you. If you want to be told what to do and are happy to comply, then this book is not for you. For those people who are naturally compliant, this book paints a bleak picture. For those who seek only money from their work, they also will be unsettled by this book.
However, for those of us who live for meaning, purpose and passion and want to live our meaning, purpose and passion the way we want to, this book will help us find a route there - and a tribe in which to enjoy it.
See more of Seth's work - here http://www.squidoo.com/seth
Copyright ©Bella Enahoro Mar 2012
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