Includes bibliographies and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction to the corporate jungle. The jungle ; The emergent layer ; The canopy ; The understory ; The forest floor ; The corporate jungle ; Security layer ; Strategic layer ; Service layer ; Specialist layer ; Fruits of the jungle ; Corporate ladder -- Chapter 2. Know your opponent. The ID ; The ego ; The superego ; Personalities ; Amphibians ; Salamanders (Caudata) ; High profile: salamander: mushroom-tongued Salamanders (Bolitoglossa) ; Frogs and toads (Anura) ; Toads ; Caecilians (Apoda) ; Reptiles ; Snakes and lizards (Squamites) ; Lizards (Squamata) ; Turtles and tortoises (Testudines) ; Crocodiles, alligators, and caimans (Crocodilians) ; Birds ; Parrots (Psittaciformes) ; Songbirds: (Passennes) ; Pheasants, peacocks, chickens, and turkeys (Galliformes) ; Birds of prey ; Falcons (Falconiformes) ; Eagles and vultures (Accipitriformes) ; Eagles ; Vultures ; High profile: King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) ; Creepy crawlies ; Spiders, scorpions (Arachnids) ; Spiders ; Scorpions ; Trapping a scorpion ; Centipedes, millipedes (Myriapods) ; Ants (Formicidea) ; Bees (Apoidea) ; Wasps and hornets (Vespa) ; Mosquitos and flies (Diptera) ; Butterflies and moths (including caterpillars) (Lepidoptera) ; Snails and slugs (Gastropods) ; Fish ; Cartilaginous fish: sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes) ; Sharks (Selachimorpha) ; Rays (Batoidea) ; Bony fish (Osteichthyes) ; Piranha (Serrasalmidae) ; Mammals ; Rodents: mice, rats, beavers (Rodentia) ; Bats (Chiroptera) ; Shrews and hedgehogs (Eulipotyphla) ; Sloths and anteaters (Pilosa) ; Anteaters ; Sloths ; Hoofed animals (ungulates) ; Elephants (Elephantidae) ; Apes and monkeys (Primates) ; Great apes ; Lesser apes ; Monkeys ; Prosimians ; Trapping a primate ; Meat-eating predator cats (Carnivora feliformia) ; Tigers (Panthera tigris) ; Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sondaica) ; Jaguars (Panthera onca) -- Chapter 3. Know your environment ; Unnatural selection ; Game theory ; Cooperative and noncooperative games ; Prisoner's dilemma ; Social dilemma ; Evolutionary game theory -- Chapter 4. Know yourself ; Before entering the jungle ; Instinct versus learned behaviors ; Systematic desensitization ; Cognitive dissonance ; Denial ; Repression ; Stockholm syndrome ; Displacement ; Reaction formation ; Stress ; The importance of compasses ; Success and enemies ; Respect ; Ambition -- Chapter 5. Warfare. Corporate psychological warfare ; Baiting ; Camouflage ; Infrasound and ultrasound ; False retreats ; False movements and decoys ; Trapping (Flypaper theory) ; Gaslighting ; Strategic deterrents ; Operational tactics ; Natural reluctance to kill ; Prebattle considerations ; Reconnaissance, infiltration, and espionage ; Ambush strategy ; Summary ; Ambush tactics ; Effective counterinsurgency methods ; Positions with Increased level of difficulties ; Summary ; Skirmishes ; Other offensive tactics utilized by opponents ; Collateral damage ; Summary ; False Flags ; Effective counterinsurgency methods ; Offensive strategies and tactics used by you against your opponents ; Strategies for dealing with difficult people ; Human emotions ; Anxiety, fear ; Disgust, awkwardness ; Envy ; Anger, sadness ; Rivalries and vendettas ; Bullying ; Identifying and dealing with a bully ; Benefits and limitations of engaging HR ; Defending coworkers ; Hierarchies ; Unconsciously inept managers ; Consciously inept managers ; Winning by not winning ; Psychology of an ambush ; Factors of influence ; Other points to consider in the field -- Chapter 6. Counterinsurgency techniques for organizations (for natural ecosystem balance). Seven golden rules ; Propaganda.

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Using his experiences of life in the corporate jungle, K.F. Dochartaigh has produced a survival manual that assists and guides the reader on how best to navigate corporate pitfalls and avoid being 'trapped'. The book fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the animal kingdom, the guerrilla battlefield, and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and to understand the motivations that drive each action. All three areas share a common environment: the jungle, where visibility is limited, and ambush is the only method of attack by predators. The book blends animal and human psychology and provides safe passage in all its encounters. This book does not condone war--in fact, quite the opposite--and, as you will see, it takes more of a defensive position in repelling attacks and seeks to promote the occurrence of collaboration over individual competition, which will also become apparent. It is not a "call to arms" or a promotion of anarchy--not by any stretch of the imagination--as it merely assists the individual in adapting within their environment in order to ensure their survival. Whether you work as an accountant, IT consultant, lawyer, salesperson, or project manager, the same logic still applies because there is a natural order in all corporate vocations.

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