I finally finished reading Tribes. It was OK, but kind of repetitive and scatterbrained. The overreaching thesis is that positive things happen when people lead, but not manage. Oh, and that leading the tribe is a key to happiness or something.
Among other things, he does make the distinction between religion and faith, which wasn't that remarkable to me as I've understood that there was a distinction for at least 16 years. He does frame it a little differently though, in explaining that the reason people are so hard-headed about religion is that they take it as an attack on their faith, because most people simply believe they're the same thing. It's the whole with me or against me thing, which is in turn the failure of management over leadership.
He also rants quite a bit about people he calls heretics, who challenge the status quo and by extension lead. I'm not sure that I'd make a blanket statement that the status quo is inherently bad, as all states have some shelf life or we wouldn't arrive at them in the first place. I would've liked for him to make that distinction.
What I most got out of it was, get off your ass, do something, success will come. That's something I can definitely agree with, as it has been my experience as well.
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