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INDEX 165
Eisner, Michael, 129
elephants
horses and, 11–13, 45–47
loyalty to trainers, 14
sarissas and, 14–15
employee relations, 129–130, 151–153
enactment, 1–2
alliance building, 2, 55–76, 151–153
identity establishment, 2, 77–110,
146
problem reframing, 2, 3–54,
143–145
symbol direction, 2, 111–142,
146–147
environmental awareness, 136
Ephesus, 114
Eurydice/Cleopatra, 79–80
Excalibur, 123
executive retirement packages, 28–29
extraorganizational agencies, 19–21,
53
false sense of security, 45–48
fire walking, 38
food supply, 5, 7, 41–43, 139
foraging the enemy, 41–44, 53
fresh water supply, 6–8, 137–138, 139,
147
Fuji Photo Film, 18
Gandhi, Mahatma, 140
Gaugamela, battle at, 71–72, 75, 105
Gedrosian Desert, crossing of, 99, 119,
137–138, 141
gender differences, 136
General Electric (GE), 38–39
General Motors (GM), 72, 125
‘‘golden parachutes,’’ 28–29
Gordian knot, cutting, 123–125, 141
Granicus, battle at, 6, 41–42, 71, 105,
127–128, 141
Grant, Ulysses S., 85
Great Britain
end of domination of India, 140
World War II merchant marine
fleet, 138–139
Halicarnassus, 114
Hephaestion, 89, 152
Heracles, 37
heroes, importance of having, 87–88,
107
Hindu Kush, 42
Homer, 87–88
honesty, 125
horses
elephants and, 11–13, 45–47
taming of difficult, 95, 107
hostile takeovers, 113
Hydaspes. see River Hydaspes,
IBM, 132–133
identity establishment, 2, 77–110
concluding thoughts on, 107–110
early achievements in, 95–96
heroes in, 87–88, 107
importance of, 146
loyalty of followers and, 105–106
organizational identity, 78, 109–
110, 146
personal identity, 77–78, 108–109,
146
planning for death, 89–91, 107
reverence for predecessors in, 93–
94, 107
self-knowledge from adversity and,
83–85, 107
signs of respect and, 97–98, 107
succession and, 79–81
vision in, 99–100, 107
writing in, 101–103