Review of “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us” by Seth Godin

I recently finished this inspiring book and wanted to share it with the world. So, here’s why you should read it.

“You don’t need a keyboard to lead… you only need the desire to make something happen,” Seth Godin submits in his book “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us.”

Don’t we all desire to make something happen? Isn’t there an innate desperation to be something more, somewhere better than where we are right now? I think there is. And I think we do.

This book encourages the putting away of old ideals and embracing new ones that propel us into the future, that eke out a new order, a new idea, a new group.

But who are we to lead?

Seth wrote, “The skeptical among us look at the idea of leadership and we hesitate. We hesitate because it feels like something we need to be ordained to do. That without authority, we can’t lead. That big organizations reserve the leadership for the CEO, not us.”

Encouraging us to look inside ourselves for inspiration and motivation by studying what we’re passionate about, Seth makes me wonder, “Really who are we not to lead?”

If we have ideals aligned with the bettering of people’s lives, aren’t we obligated to try our hands at doing so?