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The Inner and Outer Operating Environments: Gilgamesh’s World ESTBO1 2024 – ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 4  MacLellan and Mitchel 2016 Interna...

The Inner and Outer Operating Environments: Gilgamesh’s World ESTBO1 2024 – ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 4  MacLellan and Mitchel 2016 Internal operating environment; within the control of the organization: Labour Materials Machinery Financial Capital Management JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017, 5 2018, 2019)  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 External operating environment; outside the control of the organization; Micro Environment: Suppliers Clients Market intermediaries Competitors Public JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 6  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 External operating environment; outside the control of the organization; Macro Environment: Economic Non-economic Political Environment Cultural environment Technological environment Natural environment Demographic environment International environment JIMacLellan -- ESTB01H3F (Copyright 2015, 2016, 2017) 7  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (C)  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 So how does Gilgamesh ‘see’ his relationship to the environment and society? This has always been the challenge … How have humans navigated their macro operating environment? How would Gilgamesh frame his view of the environment? In other words, what was his worldview [Weltanschauung]? What were his ideals of how things should work? MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (C)  MacLellan and Mitchell 2016 We can speculate: “A sociology of ants can only account for regularities of behavior, while a sociology of human groups has access to the subjective aspects of action, their meaning and motivation” (Coser 1977). This notion of historic interpretation was utilized by Vico, Droysen, and Dilthey as a method of intuition opposed to rational-causal explanation (Coser 1977). MACLELLAN 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (C) Beyond Space and Time Uta-napishti holds a [special] place in the Gilgamesh Epic due to his privileged ‘view' of humanity, Nature and the causal processes which govern them. Uta-napishti is granted eternal life for his role in saving humanity from the deluge wrought by the god Enlil. Not only does this provide him with the ability to comment upon human behaviour over an extended time frame, but his intimate association with the Gods further legitimizes the ‘advice’ he subsequently bestows upon Gilgamesh. (MacLellan 2006) MACLELLAN (C) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020  Gilgamesh seeks the wisdom of the immortal Utnapishtim The knowledge we ascribe to the Lapis Lazuli Tablet is typically socio-political knowledge regarding kingship. But does the epic tell us anything about forests? Minimally it suggests that there is a balance, that could only be reconciled by the death of Enkido. To harvest a forest was to destroy it, and only a god could keep the forest in safe. In a way this is true, if you chop down a forest, it is unlikely you will ‘see’ a similar forest for hundreds of years. MACLELLAN (C) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020