Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success [Hardcover]

Christopher Duncan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590592409 | ISBN-13: 978-1590592403 | Publication Date: November 21, 2003 | Edition: 1

This book is a motivational treatise on the personal and corporate benefits of worker/manager unity. Business is war, both internally, and company to company. Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success will show readers that they do indeed have a common sense of purpose with their coworkers, and that it's in their personal best interest to recognize this. Through unity and the application of practical strategies and people skills, even the most powerless corporate worker can transform his or her department into a powerhouse of productivity, enabling the individual to enjoy a better career and a better life as a result.

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About the Author

Founder of Practical Strategy Consulting, Christopher Duncan is the bestselling author of Unite the Tribes and The Career Programmer. He's been a frequent guest on radio shows across the country, his monthly columns have been read by hundreds of thousands worldwide, and he is widely acclaimed for his immensely practical approach to success in the real world—where self interest and office politics are often more prevalent than common sense.

This keen insight does not come by accident. Christopher has an unusually diverse background which includes a career in sales consulting, life as a professional musician, and experience fighting deadlines as a cubicle-dwelling software developer. He's also performed mind-numbing factory work, labored on construction sites, and built components for guided missiles. Currently, he writes, speaks and mentors professionals on career and business strategies. He understands the problems and goals of your people, from the lowest-paid workers to the executive elite, because he's been there himself and lived to tell the tale.

Whether he's talking about the job-related anxieties of the night watchman's attack chihuahua or explaining the relationship between bunny slippers and corporate productivity, his humor and light-hearted antics will entertain your audience as he shares his vision of success through the pursuit of American excellence.

Lively, expressive, and a consummate professional with three decades of stage experience, Christopher delivers an exciting and practical message to your people, inspiring them to reach for their very best and showing them how to get there in the real world, where things don't always go according to plan. Most importantly, he makes sure that everyone has a little fun in the process.

He can be reached at www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 321 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (November 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590592409
• ISBN-13: 978-1590592403
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,473,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very timely reading material for the serious employee, February 3, 2004

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This review is from: Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success (Hardcover)

After reading some of the reviews, I was pleased to see that many readers were also finding great value and answers to common problems in this book. However, I was dumbfounded that one reviewer stated that in her company someone would be fired for following the advice of this book. To be blunt, that's just plain scary as the advice in this book centers on the approach of bringing people together in order to set and accomplish company-wide goals. In fact, the entire premise of the book is that if you stop thinking of only yourself and think of ways to help everyone reach their goals, everyone ultimately wins out in the end - both the company and each individual.

I personally believe that the main reason for such a sharp decline in customer service over the past few decades can be attributed to one element - employee apathy. I also believe that this apathy - which leads to poor job performance, which ultimately results in an inferior product - is caused by corporate environments where people feel under-appreciated, overworked and that everyone is simply out to satisfy their own personal agendas - at the expense of the company's well-being.

This is specifically the problem that this book addresses - as the title "Unit the Tribes" suggests - bringing people together in the name of a common goal where in the end everyone wins. While this book doesn't pretend to have all the answers, I was very impressed with the stories and advice related from someone who's obviously been in a myriad different fields for over 30+ years. Give me this type of person's advice over a "consultant" who's all about theory with no real experience to back it up. My advice is that if you're looking to become a more productive and happy employee, buy this book today. Even better, if you're a manager, then you owe it to your team to purchase a copy for each member of the team and make it required reading.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading..., April 13, 2004

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This review is from: Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success (Hardcover)

Do you work at a company where most of the energy is spent fighting each other instead of the competition? Unite The Tribes is an extremely good book that outlines a program for learning how to focus the company to conquer the real enemy, your competitor who would rather you didn't exist. This should be required reading in most all large corporations.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great advice for Corporate America!, February 2, 2004

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Charles (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success (Hardcover)

Mr. Duncan hits the nail on the head over and over again with his pillars! Anyone working at any level of corporate America can benefit from this book.
I`m a department manager for an international distribution company and I see, everyday, the unneccesary struggle not only between departments, but within departments as well. Mr. Duncan`s suggestions help alleviate those struggles and help reiterate why we get up every morning and pursue the careers we`ve chosen.
All companies serve a customer of some sort and the further removed you are from the customer, the more difficult it is to see exactly how much of an impact each and every person has on whether or not your customer chooses to do business with you or your competition. This book brings that hieracrchy into focus for everyone on the ladder no matter where you happen to fall. Thank you Mr. Duncan for your honest approach and useable information for us folks in the real world!