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Leadership

Tribes

Seth Godin · 2008

The internet ended geography as the limit on tribes — now anyone can lead, and the only barrier is the willingness to.

Summary

Godin argues that the internet's most important effect on leadership has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with tribes — groups of people connected to each other, to a leader, and to an idea. For most of human history, joining a tribe meant being born into one or moving to where one existed. Now anyone with an internet connection can find or start a tribe of any size, around any idea. The bottleneck isn't access or tools; it's the willingness to lead. Most people, Godin contends, are held back not by lack of opportunity but by what he calls the resistance — the lizard-brain fear of criticism, of being noticed, of being wrong in public. The book is short by design: it's a manifesto, not a manual.

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