Managers and Magic

206 Pages. Red boards with black spine lettering. No defects noted and interior text pages are flawless. Everyone is in business to make a profit. Right? Wrong, says Graham Cleverley in this witty, trenchant look at today's business executives. Although they lie to picture themselves as rational and objective, they are, in actuality, brothers under the skin to the most superstitious tribesmen. By showing through numerous examples how the business world really works, Graham Cleverley puts management culture in an entirely new light. Contents: Preface, Introduction, Magic at Large, The Worshipers, The Priests, The Sorcerers, Fertility Rites, Controlling the Elements, Rites of Passage, Funerary Rites, Taboos, Sexual Taboos, Saturnalia, Sacrae Personae, Demigods and Heroes, The Fisher-King, and Conclusion.