Tribes
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But when we talked to people, it appeared that a funnel effect had happened in these
tribes
all across the United States.
And it's within these
tribes
that all of our work gets done.
It's within these
tribes
that societies get built, that important things happen.
Now, the reason we knew that was because we spent the previous 10 years studying tribes, studying these naturally occurring groups.
All of you are members of
tribes.
And so people form
tribes.
Just as fish swim and birds fly, people form tribes. It's just what we do.
Not all
tribes
are the same, and what makes the difference is the culture.
You're all a member of
tribes.
If you can find a way to take the
tribes
that you're in and nudge them forward, along these tribal stages to what we call Stage Five, which is the top of the mountain.
Stage One is a group where people systematically sever relationships from functional tribes, and then pool together with people who think like they do.
Stage Four
tribes
can do remarkable things.
Largely because people like Desmond Tutu set up a Stage Five process to involve the thousands and perhaps millions of
tribes
in the country, to bring everyone together.
48 percent of working
tribes
say, these are employed tribes, say, "I'm great and you're not."
Only about 22 percent of
tribes
are at Stage Four, oriented by our values, saying "We're great.
Only two percent, only two percent of
tribes
get to Stage Five.
Tribes
can only hear one level above and below where they are.
And then leaders nudge people within their
tribes
to the next level.
See, people who build world-changing
tribes
do that.
They extend the reach of their
tribes
by connecting them, not just to myself, so that my following is greater, but I connect people who don't know each other to something greater than themselves.
First of all: we all form tribes, all of us.
You're in
tribes
here.
Hopefully you're extending the reach of the
tribes
that you have.
But the question on the table is this: What kind of an impact are the
tribes
that you are in making?
If you do what we've talked about, you listen for how people actually communicate in the
tribes
that you're in.
And the question that I'd like to leave you with is this: Will your
tribes
change the world?
Or, one of the most fascinating
tribes
I ever lived with, the Waorani of northeastern Ecuador, an astonishing people first contacted peacefully in 1958.
After all, it's the Quran which encourages us to do this: "We made you into nations and
tribes
so that you could learn from one another."
And if we study those hunter-gatherer
tribes
and the Neanderthal, which are very similar to early man, we find out a very curious thing about this world without technology, and this is a kind of a curve of their average age.
There are no Neanderthal fossils that are older than 40 years old that we've ever found, and the average age of most of these hunter-gatherer
tribes
is 20 to 30.
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