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My Manager and Other Animals (Paperback)
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My Manager and Other Animals (Paperback)
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List price R279
Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
You Save R29 (10%)
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Deep down, we're just like animals. Some of us are selfish like
apes. Some are chaotic like ants. . . And somehow the two clash and
coalesce in 'antagonistic harmony'. A fascinating look at the
evolutionary psychology, instincts and tactics of the workplace. My
Manager & Other Animals examines the evolutionary psychology of
work, focusing on the office, workshop, corporation or government
department, and the complex and fascinating evolutionary tactics
that have developed to deal with working life. 37 years ago Richard
Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene and it didn't take long for the
business community to latch on to the 'selfish' part and adopt it
as an industry standard. After all, it fitted in with the notion
that, since we are all descended from apes, we should be like them:
selfish, aggressive and competitive. More recently, astounding
discoveries in human and animal behaviour (particularly ants) have
shown that, in all animals, cooperation and altruism is more common
than we think and more useful than we could imagine. It seems we
contain an inner ape and an inner ant. How confusing; they seem
like opposites, because co-operation means helping others,
competition means swatting them. What are we, ape or ant? This book
shows that ant and ape are both important. Co-operation without
leadership is random, leadership without co-operation is slavery.
The result of these two colliding is the mad mad mad world of work
and life, lovingly described in the book.
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