Good Books

In “The Heart of Change,” John Kotter follows up his 1996 book “Leading Change” by revisiting the topic of company transformations. In this book, Kotter (with Dan S. Cohen) focuses on the individuals who lead the change and breaks down [...]

Although this book focuses on a meaningful retirement, it also serves to underline how important corporate sustainability programs can be to employees. Especially when corporations involve individual employees in the collective company efforts, it helps people feel a part of [...]

The book Maphead interested me for a lot of reasons, but the real draw was the chapter on Geocaching. Caching has a lot of history here at Tribe. Let’s just say it involved me in the woods looking for the [...]

Tina Fey Gives Tips on Being the Boss (no, she’s not talking about being Bruce Springsteen) Tina Fey is the funny, bespectacled woman on NBC. You might know her as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock, as the previous librarian newscaster [...]

I will never say, “Can I play devil’s advocate for a minute?” again.  For most of my career that was my go-to line.  Being an analytical thinker I always thought about how a potential good idea wouldn’t work or how [...]

Tribe recently completed a research project on hiring practices. The findings were both helpful and insightful and we would love to share them with you. Another good resource for finding star talent is the lessons in Bryant’s book. In particular, [...]

It’s not new news that everyone loves “The Help.” It’s been praised in both its book and movie format, but this may be the first review to consider it through the lens of employee engagement. After seeing the movie recently, [...]

At Tribe, we know that a successful, engaged culture is key to attracting and retaining star talent, which leads to attracting and retaining loyal customers.  We realize that in order to have a strong culture, everyone from the front line [...]

Onward is the story of a company getting out of its own way. The book begins with Starbucks ceo (Starbucks uses lowercase letters for all of their leadership positions) Howard Schultz realizing something was wrong. Starbucks was hugely successful but [...]

At Tribe we are often asked why employee engagement is important and what’s the business reason for doing it. In simple terms, engaged employees are more productive. Simplifying it one step more, happy employees are engaged employees. In “The Geography [...]