Tribal leadership: tribes and leaders (part 1 of 3)

Tribal Leadership in Practice
Part 1 of 3: Tribes and Leaders

Si Alhir

salhir@redpointtech.com Tribal Leadership salhir@gmail.com http://salhir.wordpress.com
http://www.redpointtech.com 1 Copyright (c) 2010 Sinan Si Alhir. All rights reserved.

Si Alhir - Practitioner
(Sinan Si Alhir)
~ “Essentialist” and “Resultant” - “Pragmatic not Dogmatic” - “Transformation Artist”
~ Over two decades of experience in all aspects of Solutioning:
~ Technology product/services management (planning and marketing) and Engineering
(development)
~ Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Enterprise (Business and Technology) Transformation
(Adopt, Scale, Sustain)
~ Consultant, Coach/Mentor, Trainer/Educator, and Conference speaker
~ Author (3 books, 2 articles in the Encyclopedia of SE, and other publications)
~ Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB),
Certified Scrum Master (CSM),
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP),
IT Project Management Certified Professional (IT Project+), and
e-Business Certified Professional (e-Biz+)

~ Information
~ Email: salhir@gmail.com Phone:
salhir@redpointtech.com 202.596.8202
~ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/salhir
~ Blog: http://salhir.wordpress.com
~ Twitter: http://twitter.com/SAlhir


How do we Transform a Group
into an Organization?

Group
? Organization


How do we Transform a Group
into a Thriving Organization?

Group
? Thriving
Organization


How do we Transform a Natural Group
into a Thriving Organization?

Natural
Group
? Thriving
Organization


Natural Groups and Thriving Organizations

Cause

Alignment Alignment

Natural
Group

Commitment
? Thriving
Organization

Commitment

Values


Leadership

Cause

Alignment Alignment

Strategy

Natural Thriving
Group Organization

Culture

Commitment Commitment

Values


Tribal Leadership

Cause

Alignment Alignment

Strategy

Natural Thriving
Group Organization

Culture


Values

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization


Tribal Leader

Cause

Alignment Alignment

Strategy

Natural Thriving
Group Organization

Culture


Values

A Tribal Leader is a leader who synchronizes culture and strategy,
consistently stabilizing and effectively developing other people around them
who lead from their role and expertise.
Ultimately, the team produce vastly superior results!

Why
~ Unique aspects of the Product Manger's role*
~ Boundary role between market & enterprise and various communities within
the enterprise
~ At the intersection of conflicting & ambiguous internal-external and formal-
informal forces
~ Anthropology and the Culture of Product Managers**
~ “Product managers ... a pattern of them straddling multiple cultures within
an organization ... the organizational (business) culture ... their own unique
(product management) subculture ... different functional/departmental
cultures.”
~ “The product manager ... requires that they develop a unique set of
interpersonal relationship skills, and those who truly excel possess a superior
cross-cultural skill set as well.”
~ “Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand” (Bill Taylor, Fast Company, September 2010)
~ “Your Culture Is Your Brand” (Tony Hsieh, Zappos, January 2009, June 2010)
~ “Brand Culture” (ID Branding)

* Steven Lysonski, A Boundary Theory Investigation of the Product Manager's Role, 1985, http://www.jstor.org/pss/1251173
** Paula Gray, Association of International Product Marketing & Management (AIPMM), Business Anthropology and the Culture of
Product Managers, 2010, http://www.aipmm.com/html/newsletter/archives/BusinessAnthroAndProductManagers.pdf


Birds Flock, Fish School, and People Tribe

~ Tribes
~ Naturally forming group
~ Basic sociological unit
~ Between 20 and 150 people
~ Basic building block of any human endeavor
~A small organization is a single tribe
~A large organization is a tribe of tribes

~ Tribal Leadership Book
~ Ten-year, 24,000 person, organizational research study
~ Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
~ How leaders leverage natural groups to build thriving
organizations


Tribes and Culture

~ Tribes
~ Dominant cultural stage (one-to-five)
~ Higher cultural stages outperform lower cultural stages
~ Naturally move one stage at a time

~ Culture
~ Emerges from language, behavior, and relationship structures
(fingerprint)
~ From language, a theme is observable
~ From behavior (and relationship structures), a mood results
~ Leverage points nudge a tribe forward


Tribal Leaders and Tribal Leadership

~ Tribal Leaders
~ Leaders upgrade tribes; tribes embrace leaders; and tribes
and leaders create each other
~ Leaders nudge language and foster relationships
~ Changing the language and fostering relationships changes
the tribe itself

~ Tribal Leadership
~ Process that focuses on culture (language and relationship
structures) to nudge a tribe forward
~Changing language
~Fostering different types of relationship
~ Synchronizing culture & strategy to produce superior results
~ Leaders consistently stabilizing and developing other people
as leaders

Tribes and Tribal Leaders

~ Tribes and Culture
~ Tribes, naturally forming groups, move one cultural stage at a
time on a scale of one-to-five
~ Culture emerges from language (theme), behavior (mood),
and relationship structures

~ Tribal Leaders and Tribal Leadership
~ Tribal leaders upgrade tribes through cultural stages using
leverage points
~ Tribal leadership involves nudging language and fostering
relationships


Stage 1 and Stage 2
~ Stage 1: "Life sucks" (2%) - Alienated – Undermining
~ People are alienated from each other
~ Relationships are undermining
~ Behavior expresses despairing hostility
~ Tribal leaders help people recognize and appreciate any positive aspects of
life

~ Stage 2: "My life sucks" (25%) - Separate – Ineffective
~ People are separate from each other
~ Relationships are ineffective
~ Behavior expresses being apathetic victims
~ Leverage Points
~ Help people actualize themselves through efforts & results that can be
accomplished individually
~ Foster confidence and independence
~ Encourage individuals to form dyads


Stage 3
~ Stage 3: "I’m great (and you’re not)" (49%) -
Personal Domination - Useful (Dyadic)
~ People experience personal domination of one member over others
~ Relationships are established for their usefulness
~ Behavior expresses being lone warriors
~ People form dyadic relationships
~ Leverage Points
~ Help people actualize themselves through efforts & results that require
a team
~ Foster confidence and interdependence
~ Encourage individuals to form triads


Stage 4 and Stage 5
~ Stage 4: "We’re great (and they’re not)" (22%) -
Stable Partnership - Important (Triadic)
~ People experience stable partnerships
~ Relationships are important
~ Behavior expresses tribal pride
~ People form triadic relationships organized around resonant core values and
a noble cause
~ Organizations compete against other organizations
~ Tribal leaders help the tribe actualize itself through history-making efforts

~ Stage 5: "Life is great" (2%) - Team - Vital (Triadic)
~ People experience a team of stable partnerships
~ Relationships are vital
~ Behavior expresses innocent wonderment
~ People form networked triadic relationships organized around history-making
efforts
~ Organizations compete with other organizations


Conclusion

~ Tribes and Tribal Leaders
~ Tribes and Culture
~ Tribal Leaders and Tribal Leadership

~ Tribal Stages
~ Stage 1: "Life sucks" (2%) - Alienated - Undermining
~ Stage 2: "My life sucks" (25%) - Separate - Ineffective
~ Stage 3: "I’m great (and you’re not)" (49%) - Personal
Domination - Useful (Dyadic)
~ Stage 4: "We’re great (and they’re not)" (22%) - Stable
Partnership - Important (Triadic)
~ Stage 5: "Life is great" (2%) - Team - Vital (Triadic)


Thank You

Si Alhir


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