Seth Godin, author of The Purple Cow, and the new book Poke the Box, spoke on the first afternoon of the Global Leadership Summit. Seth always has a visually captivating talk, so it’s hard stop looking to take notes. But these are some of my takeaways…
- We’ve branded ourselves to death.
- We are seeing the death of the industrial age. It’s being replaced by a new age…an age of weird, of edge, a tribe.
- A tribe is a group of people who share a culture, an idea, a goal.
- We used to have just 3 tribes: Work tribe, cultural tribe, a religious tribe.
- Now there are a billion different tribes.
- Deep in our DNA, we want to do what others are doing, we need to be in sync with others. That’s why we gravitate toward a tribe.
- In the past 5 years, the laptop has revolutionized the world. It is the means of production. And now the worker has it–not just the people in power.
- The worker is being replaced by the artist.
- Managers try to get you to do what you did yesterday, but a little better and faster. Leaders are different.
- Competence used to be important. It used to get you a job. Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
- If they only thing you have to offer is that you are the “local church” –that no longer matters.
- If you have decided that what you are doing is so important that failure is not an option–you have just announced that success is not an option either.
- Every revolution destroys what came before–just before it creates something new.
- Too many people are walking around hanging on to stuff until it rots…rather than giving it away.
- We are constantly looking for a reason to not do our art–and to blame someone else.
- The world is begging for your leadership.
