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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/05/2009)Buy Now

This is the result of five years of thinking about what makes a tribe. It's a book for musicians, marketers, ministers and moyels. Okay, maybe not moyels.

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The future belongs to a different kind of person w more...11 points

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss

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What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering more...9 points

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Duct Tape Marketing is the small business marketin more...6 points

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A black swan is a highly improbable event with thr more...6 points

Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and drive your competitors crazy) by Jonathan Salem Baskin

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Most people don't know it yet, but branding is dea more...6 points

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

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In the spirit of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, a s more...5 points

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn

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In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the un more...5 points

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

The Cluetrain Manifesto illustrates how the Intern more...5 points

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The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man  more...5 points

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Contribute instead of trying to be the best of the more...4 points

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

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Understanding the amazing force that links some of more...4 points

Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, Robert B. Cialdini

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Small changes can make a big difference in your po more...4 points

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

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A marvelous leadership book told through a science more...4 points

The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers by Douglas Atkin

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Doug's book is often overlooked, but loaded with j more...3 points

Ask Without Fear!: A Simple Guide to Connecting Donors With What Matters to Them Most by Marc A. Pitman

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IS FUNDRAISING FUN FOR YOU?Are your board members more...3 points

Inspire! What Great Leaders Do by Lance Secretan

Inspire! What Great Leaders Do by Lance Secretan

A top business consultant and speaker lights the p more...3 points

StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath

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DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST more...3 points

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism by Matt Mason

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It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and more...3 points

Think Two Products Ahead: Secrets the Big Advertising Agencies Don't Want You to Know and How to Use Them for Bigger Profits by Ben Mack

Think Two Products Ahead: Secrets the Big Advertising Agencies Don't Want You to Know and How to Use Them for Bigger Profits by Ben Mack

This commonsense guide lets you develop your brand more...3 points

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A primer on leadership as well as a candid and ind more...3 points

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Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top more...3 points

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman

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Who Is Talking About You? Master the art of word more...2 points

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida

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Fast Track Photographer by Dane Sanders

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When photographers try to make the jump to the pro more...1 point

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Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging fro more...1 point

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The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II by Dave Balter

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Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business! by Paul Gillin

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Secrets of Social Media Marketing is a handbook fo more...1 point

Best Website: Simple Steps to Successful Websites by Nelson Bates

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Boomtown USA: The 7-1/2 Keys to Big Success in Small Towns by John M. Schultz

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This book examines how small towns best prosper by more...0 points

My Blue Goose, Exploiting The Wow Factor in Real Estate Marketing by Matthew S. Gosselin

My Blue Goose, Exploiting The Wow Factor in Real Estate Marketing by Matthew S. Gosselin

My Blue Goose exploits some of the latest trends i more...0 points

Great Boss Dead Boss by Ray Immelman

Great Boss Dead Boss by Ray Immelman

A book exploring the tribal dimensions of leadersh more...0 points

Boo Hoo: $135 Million, 18 Months . . . A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe by Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin

Boo Hoo: $135 Million, 18 Months . . . A Dot.com Story from Concept to Catastrophe by Ernst Malmsten, Erik Portanger, Charles Drazin

This is the story of how an international model an more...0 points

Futurewise: Six Faces of Global Change (3rd Edition) by Patrick Dixon

Futurewise: Six Faces of Global Change (3rd Edition) by Patrick Dixon

The world is changing fast. In this new edition of more...0 points

Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence by Chris Brady, Orrin Woodward

Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence by Chris Brady, Orrin Woodward

Sooner or later, we are all called to lead in some more...0 points

Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide by Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky

Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide by Brian Fugere, Chelsea Hardaway, Jon Warshawsky

Ole!If you think you smell something at work, ther more...0 points

Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life by Eugene O'Kelly

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As Steve Jobs said " Remembering that you are more...0 points

Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership by Joseph Jaffe

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With the continued fragmentation of the media and more...0 points

Beyond the Literary-Industrial Complex: Using the Amazon Kindle and Other New Technologies to Unleash an Indie Movement of Readers & Writers by Stephen Windwalker

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Find out why you need a publisher ... like a fish more...0 points

Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! by Rajesh Setty

Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps! by Rajesh Setty

Through his work with hundreds of technology profe more...0 points

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) by Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) by Eckhart Tolle

The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 more...0 points

Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The va more...0 points

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage) by Lewis Hyde

The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage) by Lewis Hyde

By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly more...0 points

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Phd Ray, Sherry Ruth Anderson

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Phd Ray, Sherry Ruth Anderson

ARE YOU A CULTURAL CREATIVE?Do you dislike all the more...0 points

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr

An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution more...0 points

Viral Change: The alternative to slow, painful and unsuccessful management of change in organizations by Leandro Herrero

Viral Change: The alternative to slow, painful and unsuccessful management of change in organizations by Leandro Herrero

Many 'Change Management' initiatives end in fiasco more...0 points

PyroMarketing: The Four-Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them for Life by Greg Stielstra

PyroMarketing: The Four-Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them for Life by Greg Stielstra

The era of mass marketing is ending-replaced by t more...0 points

Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture by John Moore

Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture by John Moore

Without question, Starbucks Coffee is one of the g more...0 points

We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change by Five Independent Thinkers

We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change by Five Independent Thinkers

"We have always done it that way" is no more...0 points

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries, Jack Trout

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries, Jack Trout

Two world-renowned marketing consultants and best more...0 points

This one might surprise you 

Churches are the original tribes

Jim and Casper Go to Church: Frank Conversation about Faith, Churches, and Well-Meaning Christians

Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 07/05/2009)Buy Now

In this quick read, the authors visit churches all over the country... to see what makes them tick. What they're really doing, though, is an ethnographic field study of tribal behavior.

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AdamStanecki wrote...

A great list.

I recommend reading anything by Malcolm Gladwell, Harry Beckwith & Jeffrey Gitomer.

Thank you!

ReplyPosted June 07, 2009

truespiritreflections wrote...

Hello.
Just stopping by
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Hugs,
Renee

ReplyPosted April 29, 2009

samuilgr8 wrote...

this is very good lens.....!!!

ReplyPosted April 08, 2009

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dileepa wrote

I like what you had said & say -
"It's important to note that I don't write books hoping that people will buy them. It's fine with me if no one buys them. I write them hoping that people will read them.
So, borrow a copy if you like".
THANKS for the complimentary - Current Tribes case Book.

Actually ,I came here from Dr Mani's TWEET regarding your "The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is NOT starting something".
Help me find it pls.My name on tweeter is -- justfun54.
Thank you & regards warm.

Reply Posted March 17, 2009

RolandoPeralta wrote...

Hi Seth, I'm following this kind of interesting readings from several years ago, and I think I should add Emanuel Rosen's Anatomy of Word-of-Mouth. It was really inspiring for my everyday job.

ReplyPosted February 04, 2009

BryanBergmann wrote...

It gave me goose bumps to see Daniel Quinn on this list. I knew his books were significant when I read them 8 years ago but not until Seth Godin's, "Tribes," did I see a massive application of those principles. I love it, I'm on fire!

by the way my captcha for this comment is monkpants - hilarious!

ReplyPosted December 01, 2008

 
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