“If faith is the foundation of a belief system, then religion is the façade and the landscaping. It’s easy to get caught up in the foibles of corporate culture and the systems that have been built over time, but they have nothing to do with the faith that built the system in the first place. When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.”

“Some tribes are engaged in change. Many are not. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s a church or a corporation, the symptoms are the same. The religion gets in the way of faith. Static gets in the way of motion. Rules get in the way of principle. “

“Soon enough the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you wait until then it will be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don’t fool yourself into believing it’s going to be here forever. It won’t.”

These are a few of the gems I’m absorbing from Seth Godin’s book, Tribes. I got this book thinking it would be about one thing (growing an online following and developing better connections through social media); come to find out it’s about something entirely different (challenging the status quo from where I am and being a unicorn in a balloon factory).  It’s a surprising, challenging, and compelling read.