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Corporate Villainy anyone? I’ve been slightly obsessed and engrossed. FALL on Audible is the story of Robert Maxwell. Goodness.
“Robert was the embodiment of that now almost vanished species, the media mogul“ Evening Standard on Fall by John Preston
“Maxwell was the embodiment of Britain’s post war boom” Penguin Books
Previous posts about embodiment have raised a few eyebrows, yet here are two statements that reflect upon the embodiment of this man.
What do they mean?
Think Murdoch for a moment. Another media mogul, but with a completely different embodiment, arising from a different set of life experiences and practices.
By the time of the trial of his sons Kevin and Ian, Preston refers to Maxwell, as having become in the eyes of the British public, the ‘embodiment of corporate villainy’. We might say he represented what we think of as corporate villainy.
We each embody different things, and arguably embodiment is in the eye of the beholder.
What do you need or want to be the embodiment of for whatever you are up to with your life?
It will take practice and, like the word em-bodi-ment suggests, it has to be done through the body. Learning and becoming through the body.
Hopefully not though, the embodiment of corporate villainy.
Anyone 😉?
