Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves. The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and among the poor themselves, self-hatred.
Two groups of poor are analyzed. The status poor--those at the bottom of America's money, deference, power, education, or occupation (and combinations of those). The...
Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poo...
Tropman goes beyond the notion of the learning organization to propose the creating organization, an organization which sees that ideas--their initiation, development, and implementation--are the key resources for success in the 21st century. While three key resources are important to any organizations--money, people and ideas--the last has been developed the least. Everyone in the organization knows who handles the money; most people know who handles the people, but few know who handles the organizations' store of ideas. Indeed, as one executive said, Why should we have such a person; we...
Tropman goes beyond the notion of the learning organization to propose the creating organization, an organization which sees that ideas--their init...
