ABSTRACT

In the 'sustaining corporation': A consultant approaching an organization from the Artemis perspective will be pre-disposed to see the organization's sense of identity, its assertion of the feminine, and its commitment to environmental responsibility as its greatest assets. When the ancestors of the Greeks were driving their cattle across the northern plains, there was a woman in each clan who had the task of carrying the fire. At each stopping place she would use her carefully preserved heap of hot coals to light a fire that the clan could gather round in the darkness, for cooking and for security. In the Hestia organization people are not expected to seek power, and when they do have leadership roles thrust upon them, they take them on as a service to the community. Artemis, Athena, and Hestia are quite specifically virgin goddesses, and their virginity symbolizes their independence and self-reliance.