Anthro-vision : how anthropology can explain business and life / Gillian Tett.
Publisher: London : Random House Business, 2021Description: xx, 282 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847942876; 9781847942883.Subject(s): Business enterprises | Corporate culture | AnthropologyDDC classification: 338.7Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 338.7 TET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019048 |
Preface : the other AI (or anthropology intelligence) -- I. Making the "strange" familiar -- Culture shock (or what is anthropology anyway?) -- Cargo cults (or why did globalization surprise Intel and Nestlé?/ -- Contagion (or why can't medicine alone stop pandemics?) -- II. Making the "familiar" strange -- Financial crisis (or why do bankers misread risks?) -- Corporate conflict (of why did General Motors' meetings misfire?) -- Weird westerners (or why do we really buy dog food and daycare?) -- III. Listening to social silence -- "Bigly" (or what did we miss about Trump and teenagers?) -- Cambridge Analytica (or why do economists struggle in cyberspace?) -- WFH (or why do we need an office?) -- Moral money (or what really drives sustainability?) -- Conclusion : Amazon to Amazon (or what if we all thought like anthropologists?) -- Postscript : a letter to anthropologists.