(If you'd like a copy of this book, please click on the picture above.) |
My notes:
- A group needs only two things to be a tribe: A shared interest and a way to communicate.
- Tribes need leadership. Sometimes one person leads sometimes more. People want connection and growth and something new. They want change.
- You cant' have a tribe without a leader - and you can't be a leader without a tribe.
- Human beings can't help it: we need to belong.
- We are drawn to leaders and to their ideas, and we can't resist the rush of belonging and the thrill of the new.
- We want to belong not to just one tribe, it turns out, but to many.
- Tribes make our lives better. And leading a tribe is the best life of all.
- All of it is worthless if you don't decide to lead. All of it goes to waste if your leadership is compromised, if you settle, if you don't commit.
- The market needs you (we need you) and the tools are there, just waiting. All that's missing is you, and your vision and your passion.
- A movement is thrilling. It's the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better.
- The new technologies are all designed to connect tribes and to amplify their work.
- The Internet is just a tool.
- The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people. You don't need a keyboard to lead... you only need the desire to make something happen.
- The power of this new era is simple: If you want to (need to, must!) lead, then you can.
- Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.
- The question isn't, Is it possible for me to do that? Now, the question is, Will I choose to do it?
- Without leaders, there are no followers. You're a leader. We need you.
- Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements.
- It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them, and for the first time, it's also profitable, powerful, and productive to do just that.
- Management is about manupulating resources to get a known job done.
- Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.
- Movements have leaders and movements make things happen.
- Leaders have followers. Managers have employees.
- If the tribe doesn't like the king, they're now free to leave.
- The big news is that this has changed. People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.
- What do you do for a living? What do you make? Leaders make a ruckus.
- If leadership is the ability to create change your tribe believes in, and the market demands change, then the market demands leaders.
- Leadership doesn't always start at the top, but it always manages to affect the folks at the top.
- Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
- Tribes, though, aren't about stuff. They're about connection.
- He didn't tell them what to do. He didn't manage the effort; he led it.
- Everything I did was for us, not for me. I didn't manage; I led.
- "Good enough" stopped being good enough a long time ago. So why not be great?
- An individual artist needs only a thousand true fans in her tribe. It's enough.
- Too many organizations care about numbers, not fans.
- Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
- Organizations that destroy the status quo win.
- Tribes are just waiting to be turned into movements.
- What's missing is the will to make ideas happen.
- Ideas that spread, win.
- What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.
- How was your day? If your answer is "fine", then I don't think you were leading.
- Heretics must believe.
- It's nice to get paid, but it's essential to believe.
- Great leaders focus on the tribe and only the tribe.
- Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable.
- When you identify the discomfort, you've found the place where a leader is needed.
- If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.
- Some tribes do better when they're smaller. More exclusive. Harder to get into. Some tribes thrive precisely because they're small.
- It's always a choice. Your choice.
- No one anoints you a leader.
- Change isn't make by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness later.
- Heretics don't settle.
- The art of leadership is understanding what you can't compromise on.
- When you call in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.
- If you're not over the top, you're not going to have any chance at all of making things happen.
- Leaders on the other hand, don't have things happen to the. They do things.
- The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
- The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
- The timid leave a vacuum.
- The largest enemy of change and leadership isn't a "no". It's a "not yet". Not yet is the safest, easiest way to forestall change. Not yet gives the status quo a change to regroup and put off the inevitable for just a little while longer.
- Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.
- The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.
- Caring is the key emotion at the center of the tribe.
- Listen, really listen. Then decide and move on.
- What's hard now is breaking the rules.
- If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
- I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
- Credit isn't the point. Change is.
- Quality is not only not necessary, for many items it's undesirable.
- All you have to do to become a leader is make a choice to lead.
No comments:
Post a Comment