Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success

by Christopher Duncan

Overview

For the author, all divisions between managers and workers (and other competing groups within an individual business "empire") are artificial distractions in which individuals within the various "tribes" don't realize that their interests and their company's are the same, to defeat other competitive "empires." He provides advice on how to "unite the tribes" in pursuit of this goal through explaining his 10 "pillars of empire:" vision, leadership, organization, mobility, competitiveness, persuasion, strategy, brilliance, morale, and uniting. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430207948
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	01/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	397 KB

About the Author

Founder of Practical Strategy Consulting, Christopher Duncan is the bestselling author of Unite the Tribes and The Career Programmer. He's been a frequent guest on radio shows across the country, his monthly columns have been read by hundreds of thousands worldwide, and he is widely acclaimed for his immensely practical approach to success in the real world where self interest and office politics are often more prevalent than common sense. This keen insight does not come by accident. Christopher has an unusually diverse background which includes a career in sales consulting, life as a professional musician, and experience fighting deadlines as a cubicle-dwelling software developer. He's also performed mind-numbing factory work, labored on construction sites, and built components for guided missiles. Currently, he writes, speaks and mentors professionals on career and business strategies. He understands the problems and goals of your people, from the lowest-paid workers to the executive elite, because he's been there himself and lived to tell the tale. Whether he's talking about the job-related anxieties of the night watchman's attack chihuahua or explaining the relationship between bunny slippers and corporate productivity, his humor and light-hearted antics will entertain your audience as he shares his vision of success through the pursuit of American excellence. Lively, expressive, and a consummate professional with three decades of stage experience, Christopher delivers an exciting and practical message to your people, inspiring them to reach for their very best and showing them how to get there in the real world, where things don't always go according to plan. Most importantly, he makes sure that everyone has a little fun in the process. He can be reached at www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com.

Table of Contents

The Problem

The Empire

The People

The Solution

Vision

Leadership

Organization

Mobility

Competitiveness

Persuasion

Strategy

Brilliance

Morale

Unite!