Michael Morris: Tribal Ties in Modern Times
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this illuminating episode of Remarkable People, host Guy Kawasaki dives into the intriguing realm of tribal psychology with Michael Morris, a distinguished expert in social psychology and organizational behavior. Morris uncovers the hidden dynamics of our tribal nature, exploring three core instincts: peer, hero, and ancestor. He reveals how these primal forces shape our decision-making, group interactions, and social structures across various settings, from corporate environments to political spheres. Morris's insights shed light on the powerful undercurrents that influence human behavior, offering valuable perspectives for business leaders, educators, and anyone curious about the complexities of social dynamics. This episode provides a fresh lens through which to view leadership, team cohesion, and innovation, equipping listeners with practical knowledge to navigate and harness the tribal aspects of our social world.
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| 0:48.8 | Hello, friends of remarkable people. |
| 0:51.5 | This is Guy Kawasaki, and you know we are on a mission to make you |
| 0:56.4 | remarkable. Helping me in this episode is the remarkable Michael Morris. Now, Michael is a professor |
| 1:04.2 | of leadership and psychology at Columbia University, and he has literally spent decades studying how culture shapes human behavior. |
| 1:14.3 | We're going to be talking about tribes today. |
| 1:17.5 | A lot of us are Seth Godin fans, and if you're a Seth Godin fan, you think of tribe as something |
| 1:24.1 | really great that you build a tribe. |
| 1:27.3 | On the other hand, in the political environment, |
| 1:29.9 | a tribe could be taken as a negative. Michael has a book called tribal, how the cultural instincts |
| 1:37.1 | that divide us can help bring us together. And he argues that our tribal instinct, which is often blamed for social division, |
| 1:46.9 | can actually bring people together. |
| 1:49.6 | What a great topic he covered for us. |
| 1:53.4 | So Michael aims to show how understanding our cultural motivations can mobilize groups |
| 1:59.0 | and create political change. I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is |
| 2:03.4 | remarkable people and now here is the remarkable Michael Morris. Can you just define what a tribe is? |
| 2:17.8 | Because I think for a while, because of Seth Godin, that tribe became a positive thing. |
| 2:23.5 | And now not clear to me that being part of a tribe is necessarily positive. |
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