Burning Man Values Examined: Gratitude as a Culturally-Driven and Value-Based Organizational Mainstay

J. Hoover, Robert Giambatista, Sheila Hoover
2018 The Journal of Values Based Leadership  
Gratitude expression is examined as a culturally-derived principle that can be adopted as a best practices strategy that can make organizations more dynamic and human relationships more meaningful. Burning Man is presented as an exemplar of gratitude implementation by crafting the expression of gratitude into an elevated organizational phenomenon (including a cultural principal of unconditional gifting). Burning Man has also crafted a "Culture of Appreciation" as a set of
more » ... d practices complementary to processes of gratitude implementation. The paper concludes with a discussion of gratitude and appreciation as an organizational mainstay.
doi:10.22543/0733.111.1208 fatcat:jryatifmhrbkxdxzlud2yya3mu