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Unite the Tribes

Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Lay of the Land

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Problem

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 3-10

    3. The Empire

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 11-31

    4. The People

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 33-50

    5. The Solution

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 51-66

  3. The Pillars of the Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Vision

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 69-91

    3. Leadership

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 93-114

    4. Organization

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 115-136

    5. Mobility

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 137-157

    6. Competitiveness

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 159-179

    7. Persuasion

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 181-202

    8. Strategy

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 203-224

    9. Brilliance

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 225-247

    10. Morale

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 249-270

    11. Unite!

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 271-293

  4. Making it Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. Your Field Manual

      • Christopher Duncan
      Pages 297-313

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 315-321
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About this book

No matter what business you're in, at the end of the day, it's all about people. Workers are people, and so are managers. Every day, millions of people wake up, get dressed, and go to work. The fact that all of them do different jobs and have different levels of authority has been used for ages to divide us. The truth of the matter, however, is that we're all just trying to make a living and provide for the ones we love—and that's a powerful common bond.

If you can grasp that one concept, you'll have the power to change your world for the better in ways that you never dreamed possible. When you reach people at this fundamental level—letting them know that you care about what's important to them and showing what's in it for them personally when they join forces with you—nothing is beyond your grasp.

Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success presents the "Ten Pillars of the Empire" for just this purpose. You don't have to become a great charismatic leader to make them work. Each pillar speaks to you as an individual employee and shows you how to improve both your career and the company's bottom line in a practical and organized manner. These principles and tactics are designed for the real world, where things inevitably do not always go right. The pillars are at once practical, sensible, and applicable in the hectic realities of the workplace because they focus on people, which you'll come to see as the most unstoppable force in a company's dynamic. The workforce doesn't have to settle for less any longer. Working together, we have the power to build a better tomorrow. Unite, and be invincible!

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Unite the Tribes

  • Book Subtitle: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success

  • Authors: Christopher Duncan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5111-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Christopher Duncan 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-5110-1Published: 13 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-5111-8Published: 01 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 340

  • Topics: Computing Milieux

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