Modern businesses are experimenting with new organizational structures where the focus is on communities instead of hierarchies… top-down governance is being replaced with cultures where employees are encouraged to self organize and become more adaptable. Why is this being called a “tribal business” and what does it mean to grow a business in this way? How does working together like this motivate people to contribute more?

3. Taxes
rent
Equipment
insurance
Clients
Sales
Marketing
Development
Distribution
Employees

4. Employees
40%

6. “...the most engaged workers come up
with most of the innovative ideas, create
most of a company’s new customers and
have the most entrepreneurial energy.” –
2013 Gallup Survey

8. Let’s make the besteverything!

9. Community

10. Shared mission

11. Shared resources
Play

13. Connection

15. Place

17. You’re already remote

23. “The new organizational structure of the 21st
century is the network, not the hierarchy.
Workers in modern business need
connections, not control. And the focus of
management should be on leadership, not
governance.” –JurgenAppelo, Management 3.0

24. Spotify

25. Happy Melly

29. Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
Motivation
Engaged Employees

30. The business is greater than
the original vision.

31. “The ultimate freedom for creative groups is
the freedom to experiment with new ideas.
Some skeptics insist that innovation is
expensive. In the long run, innovation is
cheap. Mediocrity is expensive – and
autonomy can be the antitode.” –Tom Kelly, IDEO

32. Leadership
Experiments
Network
Tribal Business

33. Let’s make the besteverything!