Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe - Archetypes of the Corporate Culture

by Keith D. Wilcock, Alan Woods, Ted Grant

Overview

"The theory that corporations are evolved tribes opens entirely new ways of thinking about and analyzing modern business organizations. Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe shows how to apply the new field of corporate anthropology to the every day challenges of operating a business. Watch out. This book will shift your paradigm." - Dr. Marvin Dunnette, past President and Fellow of SIOP (The Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists) and author of the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875861982
Publisher:	Algora Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	217
File size:	319 KB

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
Part 1	Corporate Archetypes	7
Chapter 1	Archetypes in Corporations	9
	Anima and Animus	10
	Multiple Tribal Affiliations	12
Chapter 2	Soft-vs. Hard-Style Management	17
	Anima as Bread Winner	18
	Tribal Day Care	20
Chapter 3	Gathering in Corporate Tribes	23
	Gathering as Shopping	25
	Nurturing in Corporations	27
	Anima and Corporate Profits	30
	What Makes a Good Corporate Gatherer	31
	How to Reward Corporate Gatherers	33
	The Velvet Carpet	35
	Vulnerabilities and Blind Spots	36
Chapter 4	On the Evolution of Animus	39
	Warriors, Infanticide, and Cannibalism	40
	The New Warriors	41
	The Warrior Fire and Teenage Crime	42
	The Recent Emergence of the Father Role	45
Chapter 5	Corporate Hunting	47
	Weapons	47
	Buffalo Robes	49
	Corporate Hunters	50
	How to Develop Corporate Hunters	51
	The Corporate War Dance	52
	Marketing as Scouting	52
Chapter 6	Corporate Warfare	55
	Territory	57
	Missiles and Bombs	62
	Paintball Battles	62
Chapter 7	The Wizard Archetype	67
	Wizards in Mythology and Real Life	70
	Dens of Wizards	70
	Corporate Wizards	71
	Burning the Bitches	72
	Use of Archetypes in Career Counseling	74
	The Evolution of Tribal Wizards	76
Chapter 8	The Chief Archetype	77
	God Kings	79
	Identifying Alpha	80
	Compensation and the Dominance Hierarchy	83
	Alpha and Sexual Appetite	84
	Alpha and Vision	85
	The Alpha Role	87
Chapter 9	The Council of Elders	91
Chapter 10	The Troops	95
Chapter 11	On Becoming a Corporate Tribe	101
	The Actualized Corporate Tribe	103
Part 2	World Cultures vs. the Corporate Culture	105
Chapter 12	The World's Various Cultures	107
	Corporate Culture	108
	The Real Corporate Culture	109
	Tribes	111
Chapter 13	The Relentless Spread of the Corporate Culture	115
	Business School Wizards	117
	Accounting Rules as Corporate Mores	118
	Globalization	121
	The New Corporate Loyalty	124
	Job Hoppers and Downsizers	129
	Corporate Greed	130
	Corporate Democracy	132
	The Tribeless Remainder	133
	Where is Grandpa?	136
Part 3	Nation-States and Multinational Corporations as World Tribes	139
Chapter 14	Nation-States as Tribes	141
	The USA as a Tribe	142
	Political Dynasties	146
	Corporations and the Evolution of Nation-States	147
	Economic Sanctions	149
	Multinational Teams	152
	Corporations and Nation-State Identity	153
Chapter 15	The Corporate Culture in China	157
	The Rising Sun	161
	The Pacific Impulse	162
	The Corporate Culture in the Middle East	164
Part 4	Corporate Culture vs. The Agricultural Institutions of Organized Religion and War	169
Chapter 16	The Evolution of Religious Belief	171
	Evil and the War on Drugs	173
	Myths that Murder	175
	Castles, Cathedrals, and Skyscrapers	177
	Corporations and the Religion of Science	178
	Intelligence Testing and Succession	180
	When Culture Clash	184
	The Devastating Impact of Corporate Culture	185
	Religious Fundamentalists vs. the Corporate Culture	186
Chapter 17	Corporations and the Evolution of War	191
	Does the Eagle Hunt for Flies?	196
	Defusing Jihad	198
Chapter 18	Spreading the Corporate Culture	203
	Closing Remarks	204
	Index	209