Re: New tribes and adverse selection?

I disagree that there needs to be some strong social glue to hold a tribe together….I believe that what held tribes together was a “strong self preservation glue”.

Which of course is a kind of “social glue” since we can define those words in many ways…the strength it seems to me of the tribal model is that it simply WORKS. It works to support and provide security for the individual while acting within the whole.

Regarding a business tribal model, a co-op is a perfect example of a business owned and operated by it’s members for the gain of the individual and through that–a gain for the whole. Slackers may survive in a virtual project team but only if roles and responsibilites are not clearly defined. If 5 members of a co-op business run the business and each is dependent on the other for it’s “survival” then a poor performance or no performance will include an “auto-remedy” of dismissal from the co-op for not holding up their end and therefore affecting the whole. Just like the ancient tribal model.

The hunter-gatherer that never hunted as part of the tribal hunting party would soon not reap the rewards as well…