Leader and Tribe. Five Levels of Corporate Culture

An exciting and groundbreaking book that will help create a strong corporate culture.

This book opens our eyes to a widely prevalent fact: human beings group into tribes. Logan, King, and Fisher-Wright analyze the connection between tribes and those who lead them. The authors argue that this connection raises important questions about how leaders develop, how they become great, and what legacy they leave behind. By building their tribe, a leader develops it. This process, in turn, influences the leader themselves. By subordinating themselves to the tribe, they achieve a greatness that seems unattainable for an individual.

The book is the result of decades of field research involving 24 thousand people from two dozen organizations. But instead of overwhelming us with numbers and tables, the authors found and described people who embody their ideas and discoveries. As a result, the book is both informative and engaging. They discovered exactly what distinguishes mediocre corporate tribes from tribes with a highly developed culture. Moreover, they found that the culture of tribes develops in stages, moving from one level to another: from destructive aggression and egocentrism to collaborative creativity. This book explains to us why some tribes reject any talk of values, character, and nobility, while others literally demand such discussions.

The book answers several other intriguing questions. Why do outstanding leaders often fail when entering a new environment? Why do average leaders sometimes seem better than they actually are? Why do great strategies fail more often than they succeed? The authors argue that the answer lies in the relationships between the leader and the tribe. Great leaders build great tribes that are capable of great deeds, as they pay tribute to their great leaders.