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The Company Is a Parasite: Organizations Exist to Consume You

The Company Is a Parasite: Organizations Exist to Consume You

George, Babu

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Business General

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ISBN13: 9798185695050
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Company Is a Parasite argues that most organizations are best understood not as systems that employ people but as living things that survive by consuming them, extracting attention, identity, and time from the workers who serve as their hosts. Drawing on evolutionary parasitology, from the behavior-hijacking flukes and the castrating barnacle Sacculina to the virulence calculus of the myxoma virus and the Red Queen arms race, and building on the sociology of greedy institutions and the study of organizational metaphor, the book reframes engagement culture as metabolic control, the people function as immune-system management, mission and culture as behavioral manipulation, and the beloved high-performing employer as the most efficient parasite of all, operating on the least resistant hosts. It is written for anyone who has given a company more than it returned and wants to understand why, and for the leaders who would rather build something closer to genuine mutualism. The payoff is practical: a method for auditing what your work actually extracts and returns, four lines of defense for building resistance without bitterness, and a strategy of exit velocity that lets you occupy any job as a free person who stays by choice rather than by capture.

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