Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization is a business book by management consultants Dave Logan and John King. It focuses on how leaders can work with the “tribes” that naturally form within organisations.

Key details

• Authors: Dave Logan and John King
• Based on an eight-year study
• Research covered more than two dozen companies and 24,000 people
• Includes interviews with business figures including Brian France (chairman and CEO of NASCAR) and Scott Adams
• Centres on the role of internal groups (“tribes”) within companies of any size and industry

Synopsis

In Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, Logan and King outline how corporate leaders can use the informal groups that develop inside any company to improve productivity and profit. Drawing on an eight-year study spanning more than two dozen organisations and 24,000 people, the book presents findings alongside interviews with prominent figures, including Brian France and Scott Adams.

It argues that organisational health and success depend on the many tribes operating within a firm, and sets out an approach intended for leaders across different industries and company sizes.