The Gervais Principle

Main Series

• Part I, The Office According to The Office: In which we analyze the basic structural dynamics of organizations in terms of the Gervais Principle of promotions applied to the three archetypes: Sociopaths, Losers and the Clueless.
  
• Part II, Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk: In which we analyze the languages of the workplace and how they allow the basic dynamics to play out through interactions within and among the three groups.
• Part III, The Curse of Development: In which we we examine the world of the Clueless in greater detail, noting in particular their specific patterns of arrested development.
• Part IV,  Wonderful Human Beings: In which we examine the world of the Losers and the illegible calculus of status and social capital that makes that world goes around.
• Part V,  Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: In which we explore the world of capitalist creative destruction, in particular the basic heads-I-win-tails-you-lose pattern behind all Sociopath machinations, and its manifestation in the form of bureaucratic processes and divide-and-conquer politics.
• Part VI: Children of an Absent God: In which we examine the inner lives of Sociopaths and the theaters they create to satisfy the spiritual needs of Losers and the Clueless. 
  

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Extras

• Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
• The Genealogy of the Gervais Principle