Tribal Leadership

A couple of years ago I listened to the book "Tribal Leadership".  I have to say that I have listened to Dave Logan's audio of the book numerous times, each time collecting a bit more information that makes me want to be part of an organization that has a Stage 5 culture ("Life is Great") (The 5 Stages of Tribal Leadership).  As a consultant and project manager within the IT Application Outsourcing business, I have worked the last 21 years within company cultures that are between Stage 2 ("My Life Sucks") and Stage 3 ("I'm Great").  As a consultant, my purpose is to continuely bring strategic business value to my client on a daily basis.  What I have learned over the last three years is that as a consultant it is extremely difficult not to get caught up in the culture of the organization that you are working for.  How do you drive your team to stay focused on the purpose and mission of bring more value to your client?  In "Tribal Leadership", they point out the you have to understand the values of people in order to move them from one stage to the next.  Can you leverage an individuals core values to bring them together so they are collectively working at Stage 4 ("We're Great")?  Starting Tuesday evening, I will be participating in a Tribal Leadership Intensive Training Program to gain further understanding of the power behind these principles.  I am extremely excited to participate in the training in order to gain more insight in how I can help my team achieve greatness.  Secondly, recently there was a connection between "Tribal Leadership" and the David Allen "Getting Things Done" works.  As a practitioners of GTD for the last 6 years I am very interested to find out how these two approaches can help me further achieve my overall purpose and mission “To bring value to people by sharing my experiences as a husband, father, consultant, adventure, athlete and coach by continuing to learn and grow and experience everything that life has to offer.”

Watch David Logan at a 2009 TEDx event speaking about Tribal Leadership