Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together

by Shawn Murphy

Are you building a typical team or a high-performance tribe? The motivational power of the desire to belong is the key element for ensuring employee satisfaction and retention, as well as your company’s long-term success. What happens when leaders revive the workplace by tapping into a hardwired human need? That need, a sense of belonging, can resuscitate employee satisfaction and retention, while also contributing to a company’s long-term success. In Work Tribes , Shawn Murphy, CEO of WorqIQ and a sought-after leadership speaker, will show Employees want more than a job. They want an opportunity to solve essential problems and receive fair pay and benefits. While some companies use slick culture tricks to attract and retain employees, a more meaningful experience can be created by fostering a sense of belonging. Astonishing outcomes result from making your employees feel welcomed, wanted, and valued--and this book will show you how to transform your team into a unified tribe.

272 pages, Hardcover

Published August 27, 2019

About the author

Shawn Murphy is a thought leader and practitioner recognized by Huffington Post and Inc. for his contributions to creating optimistic work environments and the type of leadership needed for them.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Switch & Shift, an organization dedicated to the advancement of organizational practices for the human-side of business.

http://switchandshift.com

Reviews

[Gary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, I purchased this book because we've moved to work tribes at my company and I wanted to get some outside perspectives on ways to improve our squad and the larger tribe as a whole. For me, personally, this has been adjustment to transition from a traditional corporate structure to our new ways of working (NWOW).

What I liked about this book, is that it comes from the perspective of enhancing performance and productivity through the simplistic use of inclusion and belonging. Unlike many similar books, I'm actually taking a few suggestions that I'm actually putting to work when I closed the back cover.

My favorite quote: High performance is like a garden; ignored it becomes overwhelmed with weeds and overgrowth, lacking a coherent design.

---- gmsc

[Luigi Benetton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book concisely states what should be obvious. One omission: dealing with a workplace hobbled by (and people simply accept) sub-par project management systems.

[Eric Ganci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good thoughts on building and fostering communities in work.