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Tribes naturally form within organizations. Wherever people gather to live and work, groups of between 20 and 150 members coalesce – parallel to villages within nations – and go through five stages of development. Culture consultants David Logan and John King, writing with physician Halee Fischer-Wright, teach you how tribes and proficient tribal leadership can help you work and play well with others and bolster your career. The authors conducted extensive research on corporate tribes and interviewed many business leaders about the five-stage evolution of tribes within their organizations. Though the report seems somewhat less concrete in identifying exactly how people coalesce to form tribes, it is accessible reading, certainly compared to most organizational sociology. getAbstract finds that this exploration of tribes and teams can open readers' eyes to the way people function within groups. Managers will find it revelatory, as will all those who can succeed only by working and playing well with others.

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Copyright © 2008 by David Logan and John King. Published by arrangement with HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.