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anthropology

Understanding, inside and out

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020

Every company, every team is its own system and works in its own ways. There are universal abstractions, but these are only useful when someone can translate them into the particular context of one company or team. Corporate anthropologists do this. First, they adopt the role of “participant observer.” They get deep into the context …

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