Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilcock, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business anthropology.

Corporate culture.

Local Subjects:

Business anthropology.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONECORPORATE 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 CrimeThe 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 HierarchyAlpha 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 TWOWORLD 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 GreedCorporate Democracy; The Tribeless Remainder; Where is Grandpa?; PART THREENATION-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 BELIEFEvil 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-87586-198-9

9786610655823

OCLC:

476114085