Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”
—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster Inc.

“An unusually nuanced view of high-performance cultures.”
 —Inc.

Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these corporate tribes develop—and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, this look into company culture is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.

Based on a ten-year study of twenty-four thousand people, this essential guide to organizational behavior offers a clear roadmap to a new way of leading and managing organizations:

• The Five Tribal Stages: Learn to identify the five stages of tribal development, from the despair of “life sucks” to the unified power of “we’re great,” and how to lead people from one stage to the next.
• High-Performance Cultures: Discover why the key to success is not a superstar CEO but a series of networked tribes, and how leaders who build the tribe are embraced and create unprecedented success.
• Leadership Framework: Move beyond individual achievement by leveraging triads—three-person relationships built on shared values—to stabilize your teams and foster innovation.
• Actionable Strategy: Unstick your teams and upgrade your company by using specific leverage points for each stage, transforming your organization and boosting productivity and growth.

Dave Logan is cofounder and senior partner of the management-consulting firm CultureSync, which specializes in strategy, cultural design, and high performance. He is the coauthor of the bestselling Three Laws of Performance. In addition, he is a faculty member at USC's Marshall School of Business.

John King is cofounder and senior partner of CultureSync. He has trained and coached more than 25,000 people over the last 20 years.

Halee Fischer-Wright is a former partner of CultureSync and a practicing physician and faculty member at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.