Alinsky Now
  • Home
  • Works/Faith
  • Craft
  • Organizers
  • Community Renewal
  • Legacy
    • Critics
  • Contact

Saul Alinsky in Business?

1/15/2014

1 Comment

 
PictureT-Mobil CEO John Legere
The saga of Saul Alinsky continues to unfold over forty years after his death.  He makes an appearance in places one would never expect.  Here he is in a business publication, depoliticized.  His principles are used to interpret behavior of a corporate leader in fierce competition with a slow-footed AT&T.  

I can only imagine the chuckle he would have gotten from all this post mortem attention.  After all, he craved the public eye and was way ahead of his time in using cutting edge media to advance his public image.  

At one point Alinsky wonders how organizations will be built without the aid of that establishment-bashing image he so successfully nurtured.  

The Industrial Areas Foundation has done pretty well in this regard by finding ways to engage communities, regions and states in organizing drives since Alinsky’s death.  A key reason is the strength of the leadership training protocols that Ed Chambers and Dick Harmon put in place in the late sixties/early seventies.  Without this infrastructure IAF expansion would likely have died on the vine.

It’s also worth noting that the Chambers/Harmon innovations were copied by others  aspiring to build organizational networks.  


1 Comment
Taco Products link
5/9/2023 03:36:12 pm

Thhis was a lovely blog post

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Frank C. Pierson. Jr.

    Frank Pierson

    Frank Pierson is a leading authority on the life and legacy of Saul Alinsky.    He may be reached at [email protected] 

    Archives

    February 2015
    June 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013

    Categories

    All
    Charles Koch
    Collectivist
    Dixie Cups
    Friedrich Hayek
    Harry Reid
    IAF
    IAF Board
    Industrial Areas Foundation
    Saul Alinsky
    Schopenhauer

    Action
    Alinsky
    Alinskyites
    AT & T
    Barack Obama
    Business
    Campaign Metrics
    Central Planning
    Church Militant
    Commie Pinko
    Community Organizing
    David Plouffe
    Empowerment Zone
    Enterprise Zone
    Foundations
    Gamaliel
    Hillary Clinton
    House Meetings
    Iaf
    Industrial Areas Foundation
    Jewish Roots
    John Carson
    John Legere
    Local Ownership
    Michael Gecan
    MLK Day
    Non Partisan Politics
    Obama
    Organizer
    Organizing
    PCIC
    Peter Buffett
    Philanthropy
    Pico
    Pima County Interfaith Council
    Political Deception
    Politics
    Pope Francis
    Progressive
    Promise Zone
    Prophetic Acts
    Ralph Benko
    Re Imagining Community Organization
    Re-imagining Community Organization
    Right Wing Nuts
    Saul Alinsky
    Stephanie Block
    The Blaze
    T Mobile
    Warren Buffett

    RSS Feed

HOME | WORKS/FAITH | CRAFT | RENEWAL | ORGANIZERS |  LEGACY |  CONTACT 
Picture
© Alinsky Now | All Rights Reserved, 2022