LEADER 05560nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910810442303321 005 20240516120355.0 010 $a1-283-86439-8 010 $a0-8135-5204-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813552040 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151164 035 $a(EBL)860793 035 $a(OCoLC)777375533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606282 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390726 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606282 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596498 035 $a(PQKB)10913328 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC860793 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17474 035 $a(DE-B1597)526060 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813552040 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL860793 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10535576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417689 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151164 100 $a20101217d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCorporate dreams$b[electronic resource] $ebig business in American democracy from the Great Depression to the great recession /$fJames Hoopes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-5130-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe corporate American dream at its height and in its origins -- The corporate American dream -- Corporate and national character -- From public purpose to private profit -- Corporations as enemies of the free market -- Corporate failure and government fix -- Corporate crashes -- Managers versus markets -- Corporations blow their chance to end the depression -- Roosevelt's confused anti-corporatism -- The corporation strikes back -- The right to manage -- Corporations recover their moral authority -- Killing the unions softly -- Creating Reagan and his voters -- What manner of man(ager)? -- Masking the arrogance of power -- Responsibility versus profit at general motors -- Critics of managerial character -- JFK's pyrrhic victory over U.S. steel -- The corporation in the wilderness again -- McNamara and the staffers -- The false confidence of the anti-corporatists -- Corporate America loses world supremacy -- Laying the groundwork for the corporation's cultural comeback -- Leadership -- Managing by values -- Creating the concept of corporate culture -- Inventing the leadership development industry -- Reagan aids corporations by bashing government -- Entrepreneurship -- Supply siders versus the big corporation -- Reengineering the corporation -- George W. Bush, Enron, and the great recession -- Can the corporate American dream be saved?. 330 $aPublic trust in corporations plummeted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, when "Lehman Brothers" and "General Motors" became dirty words for many Americans. In Corporate Dreams, James Hoopes argues that Americans still place too much faith in corporations and, especially, in the idea of "values-based leadership" favored by most CEOs. The danger of corporations, he suggests, lies not just in their economic power, but also in how their confused and undemocratic values are infecting Americans' visions of good governance. Corporate Dreams proposes that Americans need to radically rethink their relationships with big business and the government. Rather than buying into the corporate notion of "values-based leadership," we should view corporate leaders with the same healthy suspicion that our democratic political tradition teaches us to view our political leaders. Unfortunately, the trend is moving the other way. Corporate notions of leadership are invading our democratic political culture when it should be the reverse. To diagnose the cause and find a cure for our toxic attachment to corporate models of leadership, Hoopes goes back to the root of the problem, offering a comprehensive history of corporate culture inAmerica, from the Great Depression to today's Great Recession. Combining a historian's careful eye with an insider's perspective on the business world, this provocative volume tracks changes in government economic policy, changes in public attitudes toward big business, and changes in how corporate executives view themselves. Whether examining the rise of Leadership Development programs or recounting JFK's Pyrrhic victory over U.S. Steel, Hoopes tells a compelling story of how America lost its way, ceding authority to the policies and values of corporate culture. But he also shows us how it's not too late to return to our democratic ideals-and that it's not too late to restore the American dream. 606 $aCorporate culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBusiness and politics$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aPolitical ethics$zUnited States 606 $aLeadership$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009 607 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions 610 $agreat depression, great recession, Big Business, American Democracy, Corporate Dreams. 615 0$aCorporate culture$xHistory. 615 0$aBusiness and politics 615 0$aPolitical ethics 615 0$aLeadership$xHistory. 676 $a338.0973 700 $aHoopes$b James$f1944-$01701118 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810442303321 996 $aCorporate dreams$94084642 997 $aUNINA