Cultural myths: Clues to effective management
1983; Elsevier BV; Volume: 12; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0090-2616(83)90032-3
ISSN1873-3530
Autores Tópico(s)Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
ResumoManagers represent one form of the modern-day hero. As such, they are expected to extoll those virtues that have permeated the heroic myths of the past. Among these virtues are courage, strength, self-sacrifice, and humility. Before these noble qualities can be put to work for the collective good, it is necessary for the manager to reach full emotional maturity by slaying two formidable dragons that reside within the psyche: self-serving narcissism and the fear of one's complementary nature, whether it be masculine or feminine. In concluding this article, I would like to leave the reader with a thought expressed by Joseph Campbell in his The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology: “Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.”
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