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Review: Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

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Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
By Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
# ISBN-10: 0061251305
# ISBN-13: 978-0061251306

PROS:

  • Provides a researched system of classifying organizations and businesses as "tribes" that is easy to apply.
  • Has useful ideas for helping people "tribe up" and improve their relations and improve organizational relations.
  • Very readable and understandable.
  • Doesn't pull punches on some of the conclusions.

CONS:

  • Some historical interpretations are arguable.

SUMMARY: Buy this book and read it unless you have no interest in community, leadership, and business.  In that case you're probably not even reading this blog.

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The Amazon Kindle 3G: A Review

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PROS:

  • The screen is easy on the eyes.
  • Very easy to use and buy books.
  • A nice amount of extra features.
  • Man is it easy to get and read books.
  • There's promising experiments and software that hint at future improvements.
  • BOOKS!  OH GODS, THE BOOKS!

CONS:

  •  . . . I'll get back to you

SUMMARY: If you're a heavy reader the Kindle is a space, money, and time-saving device you should consider – even if you have a device that supports Kindle software.

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Take Time For a Geek Review

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Have you taken a look at your fannishness lately and seen what you can mine for your career?

Every now and then, when I'm evaluating the next steps in my career, updating my LinkedIn.com profile, and similar activities, I like to review what I do as the total geek that I am.  I review it because there's often a lot of useful things you can use in your career that you miss.

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