The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership Short

Provides 84 hilarious and penetrating stories that will make you rethink the way you do business and, indeed, live your life.

Recommendations

i

Acknowledgements

xi

Preface

xiii

Introduction

xvii

The Wise Fool

1

(62)

1 Which way success: the search for perfection

3

(6)

In search of perfection

4

(1)

To what end

5

(1)

How do I progress

6

(1)

Next?

6

(1)

In search of fame

7

(1)

In search of excellence

8

(1)

2 What causes what? Systemic leadership

9

(6)

No escape

10

(1)

Business process re-engineering

10

(1)

The psychological test

11

(1)

Unwanted visitors

12

(1)

The list

12

(1)

Saving the environment

13

(1)

Moving from where you are

13

(1)

It's who you don't know

14

(1)

3 Eating the menu

15

(8)

What is an organisation?

16

(1)

Improving the quality

17

(1)

The truth exposed

18

(1)

How old are you?

18

(1)

Portraying reality

19

(1)

Chaos theory

19

(1)

Changing the culture

20

(3)

4 Don't trust the packaging

23

(6)

Packaging spirituality

24

(1)

What is a management consultant?

24

(1)

Mission statements

25

(1)

Buying the packaging

25

(1)

The Nasrudin conference

26

(1)

The forgotten head

27

(2)

5 Neither this nor that: beyond dualistic leadership

29

(6)

The Sun or the Moon

32

(1)

The internal grievance

32

(1)

Restructuring

33

(1)

Which side of the border?

33

(2)

6 Identity

35

(6)

Can you identify yourself?

36

(1)

How important are you?

37

(1)

Leaving his cells behind him

38

(1)

The center of the universe

38

(1)

The airport bookstall

39

(2)

7 The nature of learning

41

(8)

Finished learning

43

(1)

There is more light out here

43

(1)

Learning from the experts

44

(2)

How did you become so clever?

46

(1)

The keynote speech

46

(1)

Learning must be greater than environmental change

47

(2)

8 Unlearning: unknowing

49

(8)

Where are you going?

52

(1)

The biggest sin

53

(1)

The cup is too full

54

(1)

Anything you need?

54

(1)

Palace or hotel?

55

(1)

Who is the idiot?

55

(2)

9 The value of failure

57

(6)

Success

58

(1)

Fame and failure

59

(1)

Right first time

59

(1)

A fine tip

60

(3)

10 Leadership development

63

(6)

Giving up coffee

64

(1)

Empowerment

65

(1)

Leadership training

66

(1)

Alignment

66

(1)

How to get on in the corporation

67

(2)

11 Leadership communication

69

(4)

"Bon Appetit"

70

(1)

Communication policy

71

(1)

Organizational secrets

71

(2)

12 Change leadership

73

(6)

Draining the alligators

75

(1)

How does it affect the parsnips?

75

(1)

Which way for success?

75

(1)

Turning the company around

76

(1)

Changing the people

76

(1)

Who has the problem?

77

(1)

Retirement

77

(1)

Different directions

78

(1)

13 Value, values and stewardship

79

(6)

Questions

80

(1)

Intellectual property

81

(1)

The customer-supplier chain

82

(1)

Valuing the meal

82

(1)

In father's footsteps

83

(1)

In whose time?

84

(1)

Fair exchange

84

(1)

14 Stress for health

85

(4)

Stress

86

(1)

I hope I am very ill

87

(1)

Burn-out

87

(1)

Reincarnation

87

(2)

15 Die before you die

89

(12)

Knowing when and where to die

90

(1)

After history

91

(1)

The will

91

(1)

The addictive process

91

(1)

Telling tales: the positive use of stories in organisations

92

(9)

Bibliography

101

(4)

Books of Nasrudin stories

101

(1)

Stories can also be found in the following

101

(1)

Other references

102

(3)

Look out for Nasrudin

105

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The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership Short Spiritual Stories for Organizational and Personal Transformation

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