THE GORILLA IN THE OFFICE

A parallel between the workplace and the wild animals In an original approach to topics relevant to the workplace, award-winning journalist Richard Conniff points out in *The Gorilla in the Office: Understanding Why We Become Irrational at Work* the similarities between people performing their professional activities and animals. For the author, who has studied scientific research on animal behavior in depth, visiting Africa and the Amazon, executives don't act much differently from their ancestors, the apes, just as the corporate environment doesn't differ much from the wild animals.