Gentlemen & tradesmen

This book is an early example of "dilemma theory," which Hampden-Turner later developed with Fons Trompenaar. It also focuses on British macroculture ("corporate culture," "economic culture") which then, contributes to his much later co-authored books on business macrocultures around the world. Hampden-Turner's earlier work featured the 10-part theory that he developed in his dissertation and then published as Radical Man. That then evolved toward his analysis of values (for each of the 10 parts of the theory) into (sometimes) five catetories: (the center of bipolar values, & then both constructive and destructive (my terms) inflation and deflation of the polarities). So there is a positive core of values, which he sees as 2 sided, and in the core he puts a center and two sides which are complementary to each other. Then on the fringes are 2 extremes representing the two sides, which are antagonistic to each other. On this view of values see also the appendix to Sane Assylum, his map of the "lethal structure of values" in Maps of the Mind, and much of his later writing with Fons Trompenaar. This book is a bit of a shock for fans of Radical Man, as it seems that Hampden-Turner sold