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Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe.
Title:
Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe.
Author:
Wilcock, Keith.
ISBN:
9780875861982
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE CORPORATE ARCHETYPES -- CHAPTER ONE ARCHETYPES IN CORPORATIONS -- Anima and Animus -- Multiple Tribal Affiliations -- CHAPTER TWO SOFT- VS. HARD-STYLE MANAGEMENT -- Anima as Bread Winner -- Tribal Day Care -- CHAPTER THREE GATHERING IN CORPORATE TRIBES -- Gathering as Shopping -- Nurturing in Corporations -- Anima and Corporate Profits -- What Makes a Good Corporate Gatherer -- How to Reward Corporate Gatherers -- The Velvet Carpet -- Vulnerabilities and Blind Spots -- CHAPTER FOUR ON THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMUS -- Warriors, Infanticide, and Cannibalism -- The New Warriors -- The Warrior Fire and Teenage Crime -- The Recent Emergence of the Father Role -- CHAPTER FIVE CORPORATE HUNTING -- Weapons -- Buffalo Robes -- Corporate Hunters -- How to Develop Corporate Hunters -- The Corporate War Dance -- Marketing as Scouting -- CHAPTER SIX CORPORATE WARFARE -- Territory -- Missiles and Bombs -- Paintball Battles -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE WIZARD ARCHETYPE -- Wizards in Mythology and Real Life -- Dens of Wizards -- Corporate Wizards -- Burning the Bitches -- Use of Archetypes in Career Counseling -- The Evolution of Tribal Wizards -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE CHIEF ARCHETYPE -- God Kings -- Identifying Alpha -- Compensation and the Dominance Hierarchy -- Alpha and Sexual Appetite -- Alpha and Vision -- The Alpha Role -- CHAPTER NINE THE COUNCIL OF ELDERS -- CHAPTER TEN THE TROOPS -- CHAPTER ELEVEN ON BECOMING A CORPORATE TRIBE -- The Actualized Corporate Tribe -- PART TWO WORLD CULTURES VS. THE CORPORATE CULTURE -- CHAPTER TWELVE THE WORLD'S VARIOUS CULTURES -- Corporate Culture -- The Real Corporate Culture -- Tribes -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE RELENTLESS SPREAD OF THE CORPORATE CULTURE -- Business School Wizards -- Accounting Rules as Corporate Mores -- Globalization -- The New Corporate Loyalty -- Job Hoppers and Downsizers.

Corporate Greed -- Corporate Democracy -- The Tribeless Remainder -- Where is Grandpa? -- PART THREE NATION-STATES AND MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AS WORLD TRIBES -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN NATION-STATES AS TRIBES -- The USA as a Tribe -- Political Dynasties -- Corporations and the Evolution of Nation-States -- Economic Sanctions -- Multinational Teams -- Corporations and Nation-State Identity -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE CORPORATE CULTURE IN CHINA -- The Rising Sun -- The Pacific Impulse -- The Corporate Culture in the Middle East -- PART FOUR CORPORATE CULTURE VS. THE AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS OF ORGANIZED RELIGION AND WAR -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF -- Evil and the War on Drugs -- Myths that Murder -- Castles, Cathedrals, and Skyscrapers -- Corporations and the Religion of Science -- Intelligence Testing and Succession -- When Culture Clash -- The Devastating Impact of Corporate Culture -- Religious Fundamentalists vs. the Corporate Culture -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CORPORATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF WAR -- Does the Eagle Hunt for Flies? -- Defusing Jihad -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN SPREADING THE CORPORATE CULTURE -- Closing Remarks -- INDEX.
Abstract:
A corporate anthropologist draws telling parallels between primitive tribal roles and life in today's corporation, and shows how to interpret and survive in that jungle.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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