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This book was very slow at times and even took a while to get started. The stages provide a good guideline of where people and tribes are at and steps to evolve. The key concept is to change the language and behaviour of the tribe to upgrade the culture and move up the stages.
Stage 1: Life sucks
Stage 2: My life sucks
Stage 3: I'm great (and you're not)
Stage 4: We're great (and they're not)
Stage 5: Life is great

3.5/5

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[Note: The publisher provided me a copy of this book as a LibraryThing Early Reviewer.]

The Ultimate Off-Road Driver's Guide by Dave Logan is an excellent introduction to off-road driving for beginners. It is a clear and concise introduction to many of the questions that beginners will face in choosing a vehicle, driving, and modifications. It does an excellent job of presenting both advantages and disadvantages of many of the choices that need to be made by an off-road driver. Each of the 12 chapters is pretty-much self-contained so a reader can choose any topic to read at any time. However, this does result in some repetition if one is reading the book from beginning to end.

[Note: The publisher provided me a copy of this book as a LibraryThing Early Reviewer.]

Terrific book. Well-organized, well-written, and very detailed.The pictures are fantastic. The scope of the book while broad includes some very interesting projects.

The topic of off-roading is a broad one, with a lot of disparate factors involved: choice of vehicle, mods, gear, location, and driving technique. It's an impossible challenge to try to cover all of that in a 144-page book. This volume definitely doesn't offer encyclopedic coverage of the subject, but it's a surprisingly good introduction, letting the prospective off-roader become aware of everything that has to be considered before tackling one's first trail.

The writing is clear and straightforward, and the volume is well-illustrated. There's at least a couple of pages on all the main things that need to be considered, though none receive a lot of depth. As such, experienced off-roaders probably won't gain a lot from the volume, and newcomers to the activity may not find all the information they really need here. This volume is perhaps best thought of as a starting point for newbies, a primer to acquaint them on what additional information and skills will be needed. It does that really well, though I'd be concerned that the lack of detail might inspire overconfidence in a potential driver who might be encouraged to venture off without the needed abilities.

This was a very interesting book. We got some great ideas from it!

Great information for going off road exploring. I actually purchased another copy for a friend of mine for his birthday!

I want to give this book 5 stars on content and 2 stars on presentation. Every time I worked on reading this book, I got something valuable out of it. Oftentimes, something I could apply that very day. But the whole time I read it, I was vaguely bored.

I think that this is because, while the content is valuable, the book itself is quite repetitive. I feel it could have been half the length (or even less) and contained all of the same content. And a good fraction of that reduction could have come from just not using the word "tribal" as a descriptor all the time. At some point, just assume the audience knows you mean "tribal leader" when you talk about a leader.

All that said, I do expect to reference this book often. The key insight -- that groups have different levels and that those levels can be detected and change through choice of language -- is a good one, and the authors present many practical tips for upgrading a group's culture.

A GREAT reference for beginning off-roading. There were many pictures, lists, and the chapters were in a logical manner. I would recommend this book to anyone!!!!

Got a Jeep or an off road vehicle? Car Tech has all the information you will need for your off road driving in The Ultimate Off-road Driver's Guide by Dave Logan. Whether in mud, snow, sand, or rocks, this book has you covered! There is lots of good information and illustrations throughout this great book.
I received this book via LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program, in exchange for this review.

This is the ideal book for anyone considering off-road travel or wanting general information on the subject. Plentiful illustrations accompanied by informative captions are the strength of this book. Chapters include winch use, communication, navigation, and vehicle upgrades. The chapter discussing driving techniques is loaded with pertinent tips and how-tos. Lots of good stuff here and recommended.

I won a copy of this book.

This book is all kinds of fantastic. From what you'll need to pack (fire extinguisher and first aid kit are the first to come to mind), to hand signals the guides use, to what all those gears and options mean on your AWD car.

If you're planning a group outing, or just checking out a new area, this book will give you a really good education on how to be as safe as possible when out in the wild.

Illustrations and diagrams are on just about every page with plenty of examples. Perfect for your favorite off-roading driver.

Bought the audio, bought the kindle edition and the paperback. It must be good - and it is. Worthy of re-study to apply it in practice. ...Am I stage 3 or 4? I wonder what others think?½

Be wary of books that need to repeat in every chapter the amount of research that authors did to write them. Quantity will never compensate for quality. If the research is good, it is obvious from the quality of insights and the way it presents the results. Tribal Leadership gives nothing substantial to back up its claims. After 10 years long research they often chose to present cases of fictional characters from movies and anecdotes dating decades back, instead of showing what they actually worked on...

Good research also shows outliers, open questions, nuances, and important assumptions it was based on, because reality is complex and it is hard to create a model that will capture all the factors. But not in the case of Tribal Leadership! Here everything fits the model perfectly. There is no doubt that it completely describes how things work.

But is this model any good? It might not be entirely accurate to be useful after all. It seems that it could be helpful, some points ring true, tips sound intuitively good. I guess there is something valuable hidden there. However, it is nothing groundbreaking, rather simple (if not simplistic), and I'm not sure if it deserves 300 pages long book. Appendix A explains everything on 12 pages - you can read it to get all value of this book in 5 minutes or less. I would recommend doing so because the language of the book is flat and uninteresting. To compensate for this authors are overly excited about their findings and repeat them so many times that I had to take long breaks to recover.

I read most of this a few years ago and then life got in the way. I'm not going to get round to finishing it now and can't remember much about it. I think it was about the different types of people in an organisation and how to capitalise on their different strengths.

I don't read many business/leadership books. And those that I do seem to be full of wind-baggery and overly padded with personal anecdotes.

This one broke away from that mould and delivered something really useful. At 230 its a nice quick read. Direct, to the point, and the authors even direct you to which part of the book you skip if they don't apply to you.

There are some good parts to this book but overall it makes a bunch of claims that seem a bit made up to me. It puts business folks into 5 categories of development and asserts that certain traits are better than others without any data to back it up.

..somewhat painful to read because of how flat the language is. Despite what supposed marvels of organizational management they describe in the book, the writing style is so unsophisticated and almost uninteresting that it becomes a pain to keep going. The vocabulary is simplistic, the formulation is so overstated and the message repeated so many times that you can't possibly not get it, it practically reads like advertising copy.

Not to mention this 5 stage plan that they have conceived as the one and only insight into the whole domain of business is very tiresome to hear about when it's more or less the only thing they have to say.

As an educator and theater worker, I found this book helpful for its dicussions of group dynamics, and leading groups. While reading, I saw a few of the principles discussed in action, and was able to use the language/coaching tips to guide the group.

The authors have a sound base in research and practice with business and non-profit organizations. As humans we are hardwired to be in tribes (informal groups, teams, clicks, buddies, sewing circles, etc.) Using this book a tribe can be ranked by talks and acts. The rank ranges from life sucks all the way to life is great. A tribal leader is someone who helps nudge their tribe to the next level. The authors provide lots of concrete evidence and actionable advice.

It's amazing the way the authors have shown how we naturally form into tribes and how the best companies (the ones with great cultures and high profits) are the ones where employees speak in a different way. The authors give the tools to turn around any organization.

This book categorizes and shows the impact of various levels of tribal behavior in organizations. Stage 1"Life sucks"; Stage 2 "My life sucks"; Stage 3 "I am great and you are not"; Stage 4 "we are great and they are not" and Stage 5 "Life is great". Knowing where individuals are at will help manage them or recognize what kind of company you are in. Good book but repetitive. Excellent summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_Leadership