1. Every organization is a small town or tribe.

2. A tribe is a group of 20 to 150 people

3. Tribes get work done

4. Tribes migrate towards excellent work or minimal work

5. Tribes seek the survival of their leader

6. What moves us is the people we met along the way

7. Tribes work because the build strong relationships of trust

8. Building trust depends on engineered experiences that form a frame of reference or a context of trust.

9. Strategy in the tribe becomes everyone’s problem

10. Leaders build the tribe.

11. Every tribe has a dominate culture

12. Company gossip, networks feedback, and politics matter in an insecure environment. However, the cost of the information is enormous. Energy and time that could be focused on profits.

13. Leadership in the tribe is effortless to the viewer. Leader is working to recruit the right people and build the tribe culture.

14. Tribes can be classified into five stages: Stage 1: desperately hostile interacts 2. Antagonistic 3. Competitively hoarding resource and talent 4. Team greatness 5. Infinite potential believing the tribe is going to make history.

15. Many professional people reach stage three, saying to themselves, “I’m great and your not!”, but find themselves alone and without recognition, in a broken and ungrateful system.

16. People at stage 1 think they are at stage 3 and people at stage 2 think they are at stage 4.

17. Stage 4, looks good but is vulnerable to competition. Companies that are run by people who all have the same background, temperament, personality, IQ, learning style are easy targets for competitors. Disequilibria is necessary to drive innovation and creativity. An awakening must happen. An epiphany is an awakening. Epiphany could be a series of insights leading up to a deeper understanding and vision of what needs to done. When measuring an epiphany, ask yourself two questions: What am I trying to accomplish? And How do I know if we were successful.

18. Look at what people do as a result of leaders efforts. What matters is tribal success. Stage 5, is doing things together that are greater than we could have done alone. Every employee deserves a friend and better a group of friends to accomplish breakway feats.