Igniting the Invisible Tribe Designing an Organization That Doesn't Suck (Audible Audio Edition) Josh Allan Dykstra Jim Seybert Books
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Why is it that so many of us toil away in jobs we hate, being treated like machines, doing things that will eventually ruin the planet? Is this really the best we can do with our work and our lives? Concluding a massive research project spanning the fields of behavioral economics, future trend analysis, and management science, Josh Allan Dykstra elegantly shows how the world of work is evolving - and that the competitive advantage of business is shifting towards something much more life-giving than where we've been.
Igniting the Invisible Tribe Designing an Organization That Doesn't Suck (Audible Audio Edition) Josh Allan Dykstra Jim Seybert Books
Let’s hope that Josh Allan Dykstra is working on a second book. That would be good news for those of us who care about building better workplaces for human beings. Why? Because his first book, “Igniting the Invisible Tribe: Designing an Organization That Doesn’t Suck” is darn good. It’s also highly entertaining, and made a dreaded ten-hour layover at Istanbul’s Atatürk airport more than tolerable.Josh wraps astute insight in a disarmingly breezy, conversational tone (“We have this notion the ‘the future’ is a specific destination pint, the big red ending dot on some kind of metaphysical map.”). Of course, the point is that the future is indeterminable and we will all create it through millions of individual tiny decisions made in the here and now—and so maybe we should get to it.
"Igniting the Invisible Tribe" invites thought experiments by playing with polarities (visible vs. invisible, internal vs. external, future vs. present and many others), asking power questions (the “Ignition Point”) at the end of most chapters (example: “Is the organization I work with life-sucking or life-giving?), sharing lots of valuable footnotes supporting his conclusions (including links to articles about IDEO, Semco, and other companies), and introducing great metaphors for transcending traditional sucky management and work-speak (i.e. Architects and Builders as co-equals).
It doesn't contain a prescriptive step-by-step recipe like some books, and shouldn't. In the world of work and culture, there is no "one size fits all". The book is clear about worldview and mindset, crucial prerequisites for successful change.
Josh’s concluding sentence: “What are you going to do?”. It's a good question.
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Igniting the Invisible Tribe Designing an Organization That Doesn't Suck (Audible Audio Edition) Josh Allan Dykstra Jim Seybert Books Reviews
Enough colleagues had mentioned this book that I was feeling out of the loop. While I read some of the more Utopian ideas as just that, I was inspired overall by his thought-provoking tales & questions. I've cited several quotes from this book to engage teams before & after meetings with a positive response. This book left me thinking, "Why can't everyone get on board with THIS concept?!" Sigh. Until then, I'll continue to strengthen my tribe & recommend this book if others ask about my leadership strategy.
This was such a great book about business. Josh is writing about how organizations can find ways to make their workplaces more inspiring and have more meaning for the people who work there. It's about encouraging creativity and opening doors to new ways of thinking. I think a good quote to sum up the heart of the book is, "Emerging generations don't know anything but constant change...we don't even have to teach these individuals how to be this way. What we will have to do, however, is to re-imagine how to structure our organizations to initiate an atmosphere of continual growth, so these extraordinary individuals will be able to keep swimming."
Another part of the book I found especially significant was about how we value different types of work and the people who do that work. He talks about "dignifying the detail doers" and as someone who was a detail doer for many years before I landed where I am now, I understand what it's like to be "just the assistant." I enjoyed being an assistant because I knew it would lead to greater things, but even among the upper ranks of my company, assistants are still seen as the little guy, the insignificant doer. "In the emerging economy, it is essential for us to allow others the freedom to create meaning in whatever kind of work they see fit...In order to succeed in the emerging marketplace we must fight the urge to project our own tastes on others, because we need those people who are different, now more than ever!"
I would really recommend this book for someone thinking about starting their own company, or for someone in the upper ranks of corporate America because it challenges the ideas that traditional corporate America is run on.
I can remember how when I was a boy, I found a way to use two small mirrors and a Cracker-Jack box to create a gadget which would allow me to see beyond a corner and feel secure--knowing exactly what awaited me around the bend. As a grown up, however, I have discovered a much more valuable means for this purpose; Josh Allan Dykstra's new book, Igniting the Invisible Tribe--Designing an Organization that Doesn't Suck.
In his disarming style--and with remarkable clarity--Dykstra acknowledges that the way we've been doing things is becoming increasingly less effective, and, he consoles those of us who feel empty, lost (or, at the very least numb) in the marketplace today that we are supposed to feel this way--because it is the system that is broken, not us! In addition, he asserts that within this realization lies great promise, for the fragments of today's organizations will someday (soon) be restructured to form a beautiful mosaic made up of more dynamic and life-giving ones in the future.
Through hoards of ground-breaking research, and numerous personal anecdotes, Dykstra elegantly weaves a tapestry of hope by encouraging leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations to both embrace human individuality, and, to become more "value-based and meaningful" by "leveraging the power of connections both inside and between our tribes."
I would strongly encourage everyone on the planet to buy this book...to read his blog...and to hire him as a consultant or speaker right away! Doing so will not only ignite a passion within yourself, your peers, and your organizations...it will leave all of us better prepared to maintain a viable presence in the emergent, ever-changing marketplace of tomorrow.
Bravo! Josh Allan Dykstra...Your daring insights, vivid analogies, and mindful intonations make this book a rare and resplendent gem among the noisy and mind-numbing publications of our time.
Let’s hope that Josh Allan Dykstra is working on a second book. That would be good news for those of us who care about building better workplaces for human beings. Why? Because his first book, “Igniting the Invisible Tribe Designing an Organization That Doesn’t Suck” is darn good. It’s also highly entertaining, and made a dreaded ten-hour layover at Istanbul’s Atatürk airport more than tolerable.
Josh wraps astute insight in a disarmingly breezy, conversational tone (“We have this notion the ‘the future’ is a specific destination pint, the big red ending dot on some kind of metaphysical map.”). Of course, the point is that the future is indeterminable and we will all create it through millions of individual tiny decisions made in the here and now—and so maybe we should get to it.
"Igniting the Invisible Tribe" invites thought experiments by playing with polarities (visible vs. invisible, internal vs. external, future vs. present and many others), asking power questions (the “Ignition Point”) at the end of most chapters (example “Is the organization I work with life-sucking or life-giving?), sharing lots of valuable footnotes supporting his conclusions (including links to articles about IDEO, Semco, and other companies), and introducing great metaphors for transcending traditional sucky management and work-speak (i.e. Architects and Builders as co-equals).
It doesn't contain a prescriptive step-by-step recipe like some books, and shouldn't. In the world of work and culture, there is no "one size fits all". The book is clear about worldview and mindset, crucial prerequisites for successful change.
Josh’s concluding sentence “What are you going to do?”. It's a good question.
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