Corporation Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1972 Reprint
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Usual signs of aging on jacket - still bright and structural. Clean pages and block. Firm binding.
What compels millions of men and women to subordinate their lives to the rhythm of the corporation — the meetings, the hierarchies, the unspoken rules — and can evolutionary biology explain why? In Corporation Man, Antony Jay presents a bold and provocative thesis: that the modern business organisation is not a rational invention of the industrial age, but rather the latest expression of a hunting band instinct hardwired into the human species over hundreds of thousands of years. Drawing on anthropology, history, and sharp observational wit, Jay argues that the small group — typically of around ten individuals — is the fundamental unit of human cooperation, and that the sprawling corporation succeeds or fails depending on how well it accommodates this ancient social architecture. Jay writes with the incisive clarity of a man who has observed power and institutions at close quarters, bringing the same penetrating intelligence that distinguished his landmark work Management and Machiavelli. Corporation Man is at once a work of social science, a management treatise, and a quietly subversive critique of organisational life, challenging readers to see the office not as a modern construct but as a prehistoric campfire in a glass tower. For anyone who has ever wondered why large organisations so often frustrate the very people within them, Jay's analysis is as unsettling as it is revelatory.
Author: Antony Jay
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Business & economics
Edition: 1972 Reprint
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Usual signs of aging on jacket - still bright and structural. Clean pages and block. Firm binding.
What compels millions of men and women to subordinate their lives to the rhythm of the corporation — the meetings, the hierarchies, the unspoken rules — and can evolutionary biology explain why? In Corporation Man, Antony Jay presents a bold and provocative thesis: that the modern business organisation is not a rational invention of the industrial age, but rather the latest expression of a hunting band instinct hardwired into the human species over hundreds of thousands of years. Drawing on anthropology, history, and sharp observational wit, Jay argues that the small group — typically of around ten individuals — is the fundamental unit of human cooperation, and that the sprawling corporation succeeds or fails depending on how well it accommodates this ancient social architecture. Jay writes with the incisive clarity of a man who has observed power and institutions at close quarters, bringing the same penetrating intelligence that distinguished his landmark work Management and Machiavelli. Corporation Man is at once a work of social science, a management treatise, and a quietly subversive critique of organisational life, challenging readers to see the office not as a modern construct but as a prehistoric campfire in a glass tower. For anyone who has ever wondered why large organisations so often frustrate the very people within them, Jay's analysis is as unsettling as it is revelatory.