Book Titles

Tribes
We Need You to Lead Us

By Seth Godin

Year Published: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1591842330
Categories: Groups, Leadership, Tribes

72 Quotes Found

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Tribes:

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance.

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Tribes:

…whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it’s over.

129

Tribes:

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

129

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Improvements happen a bit at a time, not as grand-slam home rums that are easy to get.

131

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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

132

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Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another… so they follow.

132

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Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.

133

Tribes:

To have all these advantages… and then settle for mediocrity and then defend the status quo and then worry about corporate politics – what a waste.

135

Tribes:

…we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

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No one gives you permission to or approval or a permit to lead. You can just do it. The only one who can say no is you.

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