{"id":72895,"date":"2022-07-14T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=72895"},"modified":"2022-07-27T12:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:20:51","slug":"workplace-tribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/workplace-tribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Tribes: The Tribal Leadership Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What&#8217;s a tribe? Why do we carry out work as a tribe? How could our work improve if we paid more attention to the tribe&#8217;s culture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Tribal Leadership<\/em> is an approach to organizational development that puts culture first. Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King contend that organizations succeed or fail on the strength of their cultures and that we can improve our organizations by upgrading our cultures. More specifically, we need to develop the tribes<em>\u2014<\/em>groups that share ways of thinking, interacting, and working\u2014that make up our organizations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn more about workplace tribes and why culture is key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-workplace-tribes\">Workplace Tribes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Implement the strategies of <em>Tribal Leadership <\/em>effectively, the authors say, and you\u2019ll see improvement to your bottom line. Your employees will also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-be-more-motivated\/\">be more motivated<\/a>, more productive, and happier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright bring diverse expertise to the table. Logan is a senior lecturer at the USC Marshall School of Business, and has consulted for over a decade through his company <a href=\"https:\/\/culturesync.net\/about\/leadership\/\">CultureSync<\/a>, while King coaches executives in leadership skills. Fischer-Wright is a licensed physician and former business consultant whose work aims to create high-performance cultures in health care. <em>Tribal Leadership <\/em>synthesizes their shared expertise in business management, leadership, and cultural transformation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-humans-coordinate-in-tribes\">Humans Coordinate in Tribes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors explain that<strong> humans instinctively form tribes<\/strong>\u2014we\u2019ve evolved to organize ourselves in groups of like-minded people. A tribe is a group of 20 to 150 people who readily recognize one another and generally get along. Crucially, a tribe is a <em>social <\/em>network before it\u2019s a work group. For example, the people you instinctively reach out to during crises are part of your tribe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We also instinctively coordinate large undertakings through our tribes. <\/strong>Working together, a tribe can accomplish things that no one can do alone.<strong> <\/strong>Think of the numerous connections between founders, partners, and supportive peers that it takes to launch a successful startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While the authors don\u2019t provide a source for this number, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/dunbars-number-why-my-theory-that-humans-can-only-maintain-150-friendships-has-withstood-30-years-of-scrutiny-160676\">the upper bound of 150 matches \u201cDunbar\u2019s number,\u201d<\/a> a theoretical upper limit to the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-people-closest-to-you\/\">close relationships<\/a> that a human can maintain. Robin Dunbar, the professor who calculated this number, explains that he found it by comparing primate brain sizes to group size. For humans, he found that the communities within hunter-gatherer tribes were composed of \u201calmost exactly 150\u201d members.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Within large organizations, multiple workplace tribes form, usually within different departments. <\/strong>Thus an organization is a \u201ctribe of tribes,\u201d according to the authors. For instance, Google has tribes within marketing, the Gmail team, and Google AI, all aligned under Google\u2019s overall values.&nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While tribes might seem like \u201cteams,\u201d there are a few key differences. A team is usually an official structure created by the organization. In contrast, tribes are informal groupings of people who think, feel, and act alike. The two can overlap: In a small web design firm, the marketing team can be both a team and part of the companywide tribe\u2014that is, they have formal, shared work duties and informal tribal likenesses, such as their values. And while teams exist within an organization, a tribe might include people who don\u2019t hold formal roles in the company\u2014such as the partners who provide templates or quality control to the firm.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tribal-culture-determines-effectiveness\"><strong>Tribal Culture Determines Effectiveness<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that humans coordinate large efforts through our tribes, the authors explain that an organization\u2019s rules and regulations influence its success less than the quality of its tribes. For example, Walmart issues corporate bylaws that <em>technically<\/em> govern how each store operates, but the tribes within a given store determine how well it actually runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way, <strong>the strength of an organization\u2019s tribes determines the strength of the organization<\/strong>. If a business attracts ambitious team players who form strong tribes, it\u2019s more likely to succeed. If that business hires mediocre, uninspired workers, it\u2019s more likely to struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is because the tribes determine the culture, and culture may disregard organizational rules. According to the authors, the stronger the tribe\u2019s culture, the more it contributes to organizational success. A tribe\u2019s culture comprises the way members speak, relate to values, and form relationships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Do Tribes or Leadership Determine Culture?<\/strong><br><br>In contrast to the authors\u2019 assertion that <em>tribes determine culture<\/em>, Ben Horowitz argues in <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/what-you-do-is-who-you-are\"><em>What You Do is Who You Are<\/em><\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/what-you-do-is-who-you-are#core-elements-of-intentional-cultures\">the <em>leader<\/em> of an organization determines the culture<\/a>. In his view, the leader is responsible for setting an example through her behaviors and by how she lives out her values. This example should then cascade downward and communicate to employees how they\u2019re expected to behave.<br><br>Further, Horowitz suggests that corporate policies are actually a feature of the culture. This might be true when they communicate the values and strengths of the leader. However, this contrasts directly with the view of <em>Tribal Leadership<\/em>\u2019s authors that the leader serves her tribes rather than trying to tell them how to behave. In practice, both views likely hold partial truth: A strong leader must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/a-leader-leads-by-example-not-by-force\/\">lead by example<\/a>, modeling the virtues that she wants her people to strive for; at the same time, a leader listens to her people and doesn\u2019t try to dominate or control the whole culture.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s a tribe? Why do we carry out work as a tribe? How could our work improve if we paid more attention to the tribe&#8217;s culture? Tribal Leadership is an approach to organizational development that puts culture first. 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