RELIABILITY 2.0

Watch Dave Logan's TED Talk video on Tribal Leadership

The Executive Reliability Leadership keynote at R2LV will be delivered by TED Talks speaker Dave Logan, PhD, CultureSync, Co-Author of Tribal Leadership and Three Laws of Performance. This keynote address and the related short course is guaranteed to improve your team's performance.

Organization is composed of tribes—naturally occurring groups of between 20 and 150 people. Until now, only a few leaders could identify and develop their tribes, and those rare individuals were rewarded with loyalty, productivity, and industry-changing innovation. In this highly interactive session, Dave Logan shows leaders how to assess, identify, and upgrade their tribes’ cultures, one stage at a time. The result is an organization that can thrive in any economy. One of the biggest drivers of tribe’s performance is the future people expect.  Every tribe has a “default future,” a sense of what will happen if nothing unexpected comes along.  In most cases, the default future is unarticulated and unacknowledged, and yet, people find themselves taking actions consistent with it. Thus, most tribes are locked in a loop—wanting something different but not finding a way to break out of the status quo.  In this environment, the best strategic planning efforts will achieve small, incremental gains at best.

This presentation draws on the ideas and research of two international best selling books, both co-authored by Dave Logan.  Tribal Leadership reports on an eight and a half year study involving more than 24,000 people.  The Three Laws of Performance is generally considered the definitive book on organizational transformation, edited by leadership expert Warren Bennis and endorsed by corporate leaders, top academics, and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu.  Put together, the two books show the five types of tribes and how each can be transformed:

• Stage One: criminal clusters, such as gangs and prisons, where the theme is "life sucks," and people act out in despairingly hostile ways.  The future of these tribes is hopeless.
• Stage Two: the dominant culture in 25 percent of workplace tribes where people say, in effect, "my life sucks," and exhibit behavior of apathetic victims, and driven by a perceived future that is best described as “a bummer.”
• Stage Three: the dominant culture in almost half of U.S. workplace tribes, where theme is "I'm great." This personally competitive cultural stage produces only limited innovation and almost no collaboration.  The future of these tribes is conversation without resolution.
• Stage Four: representing 22 percent of tribal cultures, where the theme is "we're great." Stage four is the zone of Tribal Leadership where the leader upgrades the tribe as the tribe embraces the leader. Stage Four is the beginning of high performance, driven by a future created from shared values of the tribe.
• Stage Five: the culture of 2 percent of the workforce tribes, where the theme is "life is great" and people focus on realizing potential by making history. Teams at Stage Five have produced remarkable innovations, leading their industries and the economy.  The future of Stage Five tribes is constantly being reinvented.

Benefits - At the end of the session, participants will be able to: Assess their tribes’ effectiveness level. Improve the effectiveness of their tribes.Transform an organization, one tribe at a time. Take the first critical steps in building a high performing culture. Identify shared values in their organization. Build upon shared values to overcome lack of consensus.