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I read this with some colleagues at work and I didn't find it helpful. Godin writes in simplistic bite-size chunks that don't form a coherent whole. He is smart though. He has managed to create a successful book from a collection of tweets and short blog entries, padded with sections from his previous books.
I originally picked up this audiobook because the descriptions I had read of it made it sound as though it were the thematic follow-up to Malcolm Gladwell’s incredibly enjoyableThe Tipping Point. I was expecting a study on how like-minded people have a tendency to congregate and an analysis of how ideas can jump from one micro-group to another. I would have loved a book like that: thought-provoking, engaging, at times irritating, but a book that made me excited to talk about it with others.Inste...
I have to say that I was very disappointed in this outing by Seth Godin. I've read most of his work since Permission Marketing and found this to be one of the weakest. The book is primarily a call to arms for those in larger organizations who fear taking the lead within those organizations. Very little of it is truly about "Tribes" and how they impact business which is what I thought I was getting.
This was an interesting mix of self-help/motivational leadership stuff with a bit of insight about how tribes are now forming. I liked it best when Godin talked about the nature of how tribes interact,especially when he explained the difference between how things used to be and how they are now. The motivational cheerleading seemed a bit inauthentic. I mean, he would write things like "you should be leading..." and I would just think, How do you know? You don't know me.
The author called it. Near the end, he says that some people will criticize this book for not being cohesive enough. I am that person. This was a series of paragraphs collected into one binding. Less a book, more a collection of really short essays. A few of the paragraphs were really good, but most were forgettable to me.
Seth Godin in Tribes presents a different model for growing and marketing - inspiring movements rather than building organisations. He makes some good points - about finding your tribe (or niche), passion, connection, being proactive and engaged and, most of all, being prepared to take risks and keeping going despite the setbacks. As an indie (or hybrid) author, there are 'take-home' points that can apply - especially the ideas of that of building a tribe rather than a scatter-gun approach, and
Great stuff from Seth Godin. The significance of creating a tribe for any movement (and then connecting and progressing it).
I am a fan of Seth Godin, but this book annoyed me just as much as it entertained me.In short, Godin seeks to elevate leadership —and I applaud his ideas in that regard, however he does so at the expense of management, and he depreciates the worth of managers nearly every single time he mentions them. I understand the comparison he is trying to make, however please don’t buy in to that notion that we don’t need managers —he is dead wrong.I listened to this on audio first, and when I saw the hard...
It's been a long time since I've read such a book of nonsense. I'm about half-way in, and so far he has said absolutely nothing. I feel like I'm reading a George Lucas script - all sound-bites and no content. I'll save you the time and expense of buying this book. The message is this: Give your life over to a specific aspect of life, become the go-to person for that niche, be innovative in your use of the internet to spread the word about your masterfulness.I cannot for the life of be believe th...
It’s a good manifesto to stand up and become a leader. It has a few rules and principles on what is important to create a tribe, however, that could be written in just one article. This book lacks practical knowledge and stories. As I said, it’s like a manifesto and nothing more.My top 3 takeaways:* There are not many leaders because leading is uncomfortable. And this discomfort creates leverage that makes leadership worthwhile.* Don’t ask the world for permission to become a leader.* Being char...
This book will make you want to go out and change the world.It's a powerful reminder that what we call "marketing" is really just doing something that you believe in passionately and then sharing that passion with other people, getting them to believe in you as well. There are all sorts of ideas and causes around which we might organize--but in order to do it, we need to be out there, making things happen because we refuse to live with the fear that we can't.
So far, not too impressed. The author stays just on the surface and hasn't said anything new or thought-provoking (so far). It would be a better book if it were more focused and had depth, but it seems to be just a repackaging of what's already out there and trendy in the business/marketing world.
From the outset, I should make it clear that I only made it about a third of the way through Tribes before closing it for good. So, what follows is only based on what is in that first third of the book.Seth Godin's 'Tribes' is possibly the worst business-type book I've ever read. Basically it's nothing more than a large motivational speech to try to get people to become leaders. There's very little, if any, research presented in this book - and everything that is presented comes across as Godin'...
Vague, repetitive, and cocky without the substance to back it up. Not bad ideas necessarily but the book alienated me.
Aaaugh. What the shit?I've heard a lot of people talking about the concept of "Tribes" as it relates to this book, so I thought I'd go straight to the source and see what the fuss is about.Within the first few pages, Godin outlines what it means to form a tribe:- Be passionate about something- Use the internet to connect with people who are passionate about the same thing- Don't manage them. Managing is bad, mmkay? Managing is what the old style was about. This is a new and exciting world for le...
Am disappointed. This book sounded more like a self-help, ra-ra you-can-do-it diatribe than it is a how-to book.As usual, it's sprinkled with many anecdotes of little and unheard of people and companies , which as Godin asserts, are leaders in their own right. All of which helped make this book less boring, thankfully.I distrust any business book that doesn't have a content list or even index pages, not to mention bibliography list. Is this a sign of leadership or fiction?That the book is split
I don't understand what the big deal is with Seth Godin. I follow his blog and he rarely says anything that I find terribly insightful. Maybe it's the difference in our backgrounds - he comes from a management background and I come from theatre and the arts - but most of what he says is stuff that's pretty obvious to me. And he tends to try and make comparisons between things that are frequently incorrect. For example, in one recent blog post, he compared a Bentley to a Toyota and stated that th...
Seth Godin is an inspiration to an entire generation of people, many of which spend a large portion of their day in front of a computer for both fun AND profit.This book Tribes, is the best book on leadership, social change and creating a movement that I have read. A book that SCREAMS to be highlighted and written in and talked about. Extremely short chapters that pack a punch, this is a must read for anyone with a burning desire for change who just needs the little push to get beyond the fear.E...