Aesop in a Monkey Suit: Fifty Fables of the Corporate Jungle

Title

en_US Aesop in a Monkey Suit: Fifty Fables of the Corporate Jungle

Description

en_US David Lignell

Creator

en_US Lignell, David

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:01Z

en_US 2008-06

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US This book is closer to Aesop than I thought it would be. It is among the best I have seen for applications of the fables. Each of the fifty fables cites a legitimate Aesopic forerunner and applies it with some success. A good sample is The Worker, the Manager, and the Consultant, adapted from Aesop's The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. A worker and manager agree to save their jobs from downsizing. At work, a consultant is doing his job. The frightened manager approaches him, promises to win him some savings by eliminating the worker, and asks the consultant to promise not to target the manager's job. The consultant promises both safety, but in the end, he claims the manager's job as immediate savings and places the worker on probation, knowing that it will be easy to claim his job for savings whenever he wants to. The application is complex but appropriate. CP here is represented by The Intern and the Copy Machine (13). In a desperate, last-minute move, the intern recycles old memos to make copies of a new memo. Management likes the idea so much that using old memos becomes mandatory for all future new memos. The Old Admin and the Job Aid (31) is based on The Old Woman and the Wine Jar. An old administrative assistant returns to the workforce, finds a job aid left by a predecessor in a drawer, and uses it to achieve success. Oh, most thoughtful plredecessor! How nice you are to leave behind an accomplishment that continues to produce! The cases here are short; there is one to a page with no illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 9780595394944 (pbk.)

en_US 6334 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81663

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US iUniverse Inc.,

en_US Lincoln

Subject

en_US PS3562.I454 A38 2006

en_US David Lignell

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole