If you’re not already doing what Seth suggests in Tribes, then you are seriously missing the boat.

Tribes is one of the best books I have read lately on leadership and community building. Tucked away on pages 102 and 103, at the heart of the book, Seth discusses micromovements. He begins by listing five things to do:

• Publish a manifesto
• Make it easy for your followers to connect with you
• Make it easy for your followers to connect with one another
• Realize that money is not the point of a movement
• Track your progress

In addition to the five things to do, Seth lays out six principles:

• Transparency really is your only option
• Your movement needs to be bigger than you
• Movements that grow, thrive
• Movements are made most clear when compared to the status quo or to movements that work to push the other direction
• Exclude outsiders
• Tearing others down is never as helpful to a movement as building your followers up

Leadership is not about you, it’s about the people around you. It’s about driving a movement forward, and building a community around it.

Leadership is stepping up because no one else is.

Go purchase a copy of Tribes, and if you aren’t already doing what Seth suggests, then start, today. The world is changing quite rapidly. Be at the forefront of that change. Lead your tribe into the brave new world. Don’t look back and don’t apologize. If people refuse to face the brutal facts, if they refuse to change, then let them fall by the wayside.

If you are not moving forward, then you’re moving backwards. Keep moving forward.