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colleagues have been posting a number of excellent posts on the role of HR within Companies and their HR organizations need to make these changes. Two of my Fast Forward colleagues within enterprise 2.0. I

Tribes were, for a long time, the predominant form of human social organization. They lost importance when, after the advent of agriculture and commerce, larger units of organization such as villages, cities and states gained ascendance. Connectors is what they have been called by Malcolm Gladwell in his book The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference , in recognition of their special role. After the family unit proper, which is a special kind of group, based on the desire for sexual reproduction and the raising of a “new crop” of humans, tribes are the smallest natural groups in which we humans find safety and comfort.