Overview

Leadership and Wisdom: Narrating the Future Responsibly gives business students and practitioners the opportunity to re-read tales, poems, myths and fables that have been interpreted by leading management scholars in order to translate the world’s folk wisdom into insightful and actionable lessons for a more responsible leadership practice. Most, if not all, cultures generate narratives that teach people how to make sense of the world and how to respond to challenges with wisdom. These sources provide a medium for character, as well as a guide for decision-making in ambiguous and uncertain circumstances. Management and organization scholars increasingly focus on what narrative wisdom traditions can teach us about leadership and organizational practices, and this book is designed to bring it to students and practitioners. Statler and Küpers have assembled a world-class team of contributors, who reflect on narratives near and dear to them, and draw out the lessons for leaders. With consistency throughout and end-of-chapter questions, this book enables all readers – including undergraduate and postgraduate students of leadership, management and organization studies, as well as interested researchers and practitioners – to reflect on the contents and implications of folk wisdom.

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Author:   Wendelin Küpers (Karlshochschule International University, Germany) ,  Matt Statler (New York University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781138292345

ISBN 10:   1138292346
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   17 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Tables List of Figures List of Photos Acknowledgements and Dedication List of Contributors The Sandpiper and the Clam Struggle"" Christopher Michaelson in his chapter titled ""Don’t fly too close to the sun Eugene Sadler-Smith, Choosing Our Cross with Wisdom: A Folktale for Living and Leading. Elena Antonacopoulou and Regina Bento King Popiel, the killer mice and the story of the post-lie leadership Monika Kostera and Michał Izak The Wisdom of Others - Cultural Acclimatization and Engaged Leadership Tim Gilman-Ševčík A Tale from the Ah-Ah Country Elen Riot Laocoön, Leadership and Wisdom Robin Holt How You Wanna Go?: Learning from the Unfortunate Rake Matt Statler Stories of Merlin as Tales of Wisdom Wendelin Küpers Index"

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Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Karlshochschule International University, Germany and affiliated Professor at ARTEM ICN Business School Paris, Nancy, Berlin. Matt Statler is the Richman Family Director of Business Ethics and Social Impact Programming and a Clinical Associate Professor of Business and Society at NYU Stern School of Business, USA.

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