Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright (Collins), %26#36;26.95
In light of the intense focus these days on athletes who have used performance-enhancing chemicals, management consultants Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright might have chosen a better way to describe Gallup Organization CEO Jim Clifton than ”a Tribal Leader on steroids.”
Obviously they don’t mean to suggest in their book, Tribal Leadership, that Clifton uses steroids. But the hyperbolic statement could be wrenched out of context for mirthful purposes. The authors’ intent is to underscore how Clifton has guided the Gallup Organization to the highest stage of corporate or organizational culture.
Logan, King and Fischer-Wright designate that cultural level as ”Stage 5” or the ”Life is great” stage, which is a plateau beyond ”We are great” (Stage 4) and even further up on the scale of cultural improvement than ”I’m great” (Stage 3), ”My life sucks” (Stage 2) and ”Life sucks” (Stage 1).
Clifton, say the authors, long before we heard of them and their concept of tribes, had been referring to the Gallup Organization as a tribe.
They quote Clifton: ”The kind of people we attract to our organization are the kind of people who are driven by mission and
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purpose - that sets our tribe apart.”
Under Clifton’s tribal leadership, they write, the organization established the ”Gallup Path,” a management approach that links the bottom-line with individual performance.
A tribe, according to Logan, King and Fischer-Wright consists of 20 to 150 people. They are similar to small towns in which everyone knows everyone else by name. A large corporation may consist of several tribes in competition and cooperation with each other. A small company may contain only one tribe.
”We call these small towns tribes, and they form so naturally it’s as though our tribe is part of our genetic code. Tribes helped humans survive the last ice age, build farming communities, and later, cities. Birds flock, fish school, people ‘tribe,’ ” they write. hype
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