The Pyramid Climbers by Vance Packard

The Pyramid Climbers

by Vance Packard

Longmans, Green and Co., 1963, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps to front endpaper and title page, and sticker residue to back endpaper, tape residue to covers, price-clipped dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners  (see photographs)

“Vance Packard studies the hustling, well-packaged American executives striving to move up the slippery slopes of enterprise, and describes their training, selection and promotion, and all the dead-ends, and disasters that wait along the way.
Outside the U.S.A., the Americans’ methods of selecting managers and executives have aroused both horror and respect, derision and serious study.  This book analyses both the conflicts, taboos, false lures and pitfalls as well as demonstrating the misunderstandings which have falsified the true picture of the system.”