1. Tribal Leadership:
Tribes and Tribal Leaders
Si Alhir
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2. Birds Flock, Fish School, and People Tribe
~ Tribes
~ Naturally forming group
~ Basic sociological unit
~ Between 20 and 150 people
~ Basic building block of any human endeavor
~A small organization is a single tribe
~A large organization is a tribe of tribes
~ Tribal Leadership Book
~ Ten-year, 24,000 person, organizational research study
~ Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
~ How leaders leverage natural groups to build thriving
organizations
Tribal Leadership
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3. Tribes and Culture
~ Tribes
~ Dominant cultural stage (one-to-five)
~ Higher cultural stages outperforms lower cultural stages
~ Naturally move one stage at a time
~ Culture
~ Emerges from language, behavior, and relationship
structures (fingerprint)
~ From language, a theme is observable
~ From behavior (and relationship structures), a mood results
~ Leverage points nudge a tribe forward
Tribal Leadership
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4. Tribal Leaders and Tribal Leadership
~ Tribal Leaders
~ Leaders upgrade tribes
~ Tribes embrace leaders
~ Tribes and leaders create each other
~ Leaders nudge language and foster relationships
~ Changing the language and fostering relationships
changes the tribe itself
~ Tribal Leadership
~ Process that focuses on culture (language and relationship
structures) to nudge a tribe forward
~Changing language
~Fostering different types of relationship
Tribal Leadership
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5. Thank You
Si Alhir
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http://salhir.wordpress.com
202-596-8202
Tribal Leadership
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6. Tribal Leadership:
Leveraging Natural Groups to
Build a Thriving Organization
http://www.culturesync.net
Ten-year, 24,000 person, organizational research study
Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
Tribal Leadership
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