Tribal Leadership: How To Triple Your Profits and Productivity

In a recent webinar, Tribal Leadership: The 5 Stages to Increasing Performance and Tripling Profits, hosted by NY Report, best-selling author John King explained how to navigate the five stages of a company cultural map. According to King, organizations with a culture at stage four and five can triple their profits and employee productivity.

After detailing what a lower stage company functions like, King explained that at stage four, companies maintain a “we’re great” attitude, a fleeting, peak experience of productivity for most companies. But holding on to this position is key. Businesses anchored in this stage statistically employ the happiest workers, provide the best places to work, and make sizable profits while benefitting society.

Optimizing and maintaining your stage four presence requires building stable relationships within and outside your company, King told those who tuned in. Slipping could mean reverting back to stage three, where the majority of businesses are, where productivity decreases.

Companies that exemplify all these stage-four qualities include Netflix and Patagonia, as well as many corporations founded in the hip-hop culture. Kings says these organizations have mastered peer-to-peer relationships which is key to maintaining a stage four culture.

Once you and your team have settled into stage four, King says “the world is going to find you and they’re going to want to find out what your secret sauce is.” Success here will boost your company to stage five, where the emphasis is on the team and a “life is great” outlook reigns.

King is co-founder and senior partner of CultureSync, a leadership and strategy consulting firm whose client list includes Intel, Cedars-Sinai Health System, and American Express. He’s also the co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, which served as the basis for the webinar and our event Tribal Leadership: Building a Thriving and High Performing Organization, taking place on Tuesday September 13th 2011.

In his only public appearance in the NYC area this year, King will provide insight on how to transform your company’s culture and improve productivity threefold. Find out how to register for September’s event here.