Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities

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ISBN: 9780230515734 | 0230515738
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/15/2008

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This book is the third volume in a trilogy on myth making in organizing focuses on myth in everyday organizational life. The mythical narratives presented in this volume serve as metaphors of an organizational issue that can take inspiration from or be better understood through the myth to reveal an archetypal dimension of organizing and organizations.

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
Introduction to the Trilogy: Mythologies of Organizational Everyday Life	p. 1
Myths and human beings	p. 2
Organizational mythmaking	p. 4
Introduction to Mythological Inspirations for Organizational Realities	p. 9
Myth, metaphor and inspiration	p. 9
Structure of Part I	p. 12
Structure of Part II	p. 14
Reflections of Medusa	p. 16
Encountering the Gorgon	p. 16
Reflections	p. 17
Specularization	p. 19
Speculations on mortality	p. 21
Blind	p. 22
Blinded by reflection	p. 24
An organization fit for heroes	p. 25
Under the aegis of mortality	p. 26
Heavy Metal Managing	p. 28
Introduction	p. 28
Understanding heavy metal	p. 29
Heavy metal and managing	p. 31
God of Thunder	p. 37
The Superheroes	p. 39
Story by Agneta Lindberg, superhero - Meaningless lives	p. 40
Story by Eva Nilsson, superhero - Celebrating	p. 43
Story by Martin Blom, superhero - Living two lives	p. 46
Cats, Turtles, Grinches and Pachyderms: Mythical Inspirations for Organizational Realities in Dr Seuss	p. 53
The entrepreneurial cat	p. 54
The autocratic turtle	p. 56
The evolving Grinch	p. 58
The servant elephant	p. 60
Closing thoughts	p. 62
Possessed by the Organization? Dante's Inferno on Earth	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
The story: Inferno, canto 33, verses 109-150	p. 65
Dante's allegory	p. 68
Ptolomea: 'The lowest place of all'	p. 70
Dante, Fra Alberigo and Branca d'Oria in the state of dissolution	p. 72
The judgement	p. 74
Eve Harrington and All About Alliances	p. 76
Myths, archetypes and the cultural view of betrayal	p. 76
The myth of Eve Harrington	p. 78
Dilemmas of alliances	p. 81
Playing the partnership game	p. 84
Conclusions	p. 87
Representations of the Ideal as Symbols of Subversion	p. 88
Introduction	p. 88
Founding stories as utopian tales	p. 89
Swachh Narayani, the goddess of good governance	p. 92
Students' stories	p. 95
Concluding thoughts	p. 97
The Displaced World of Risk Management: Covert Enchantment in a Calculative World	p. 100
Introduction	p. 100
A disenschanted world: figures represent risk	p. 101
The realm of the magic	p. 104
The displaced world of risks	p. 106
Reports, audit and governance	p. 107
Covert enchantment in a displaced calculative world	p. 110
Divine Inspiration for Deities?	p. 112
Introduction	p. 112
What is an IDI-profile?	p. 113
The behaviour styles of the gods	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 123
Living Between Myths: Experiences at Wells Fargo Bank	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Theory of myth	p. 129
Experiences at Wells Fargo Bank	p. 133
Discussion and Conclusion	p. 137
Heinz Von Stem on the Myth of Myths: Confessions of a Master Mythmaker	p. 139
Leading and Learning Through Myth and Metaphor	p. 150
Introduction	p. 150
Lead and learn - two sides of the same coin	p. 151
Learning as a monologue or dialogue	p. 152
The conflict between polis and oikos in pedagogical practice	p. 154
Learning from or through myth and metaphor	p. 155
Leadership and experiential knowledge	p. 156
Setting experiential knowledge in motion	p. 157
Leadership and good judgement	p. 158
Can good judgement be learned?	p. 159
Myth and metaphor develop analogical reasoning	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 161
Open Sesame or Pandora's Box? Concluding Remarks on Organizing, Archetypes and the Power of Mythmaking	p. 163
Myths about roles, organizations and metaphors	p. 163
Archetypes and the collective unconscious	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 170
Index	p. 182
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