LEADERSHIP AND WISDOM

PLeadership and Wisdom: Narrating the Future Responsibly/ gives business students and practitioners the opportunity to reread tales poems myths and fables that have been interpreted by leading management scholars in order to translate the worlds folk wisdom into insightful and actionable lessons for a more responsible leadership practice. /PP/PPMost if not all culturesnbsp: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 fornbsp:decisionmaking 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 Kpers have assembled a worldclass team of contributors who reflect on narratives near and dear to them and draw out the lessons for leaders. /PP/PPWith consistency throughout and endofchapter 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.PList of Tables//PPList of Figures//PPList of Photos//PPAcknowledgements and Dedication //PPList of Contributors/B/POL/BPLIThe Sandpiper and the Clam Struggle /LIP/PPChristopher Michaelson/PP/PPLIin his chapter titled I/IDont fly too close to the sun /LIP/PPEugene SadlerSmith/PP/PPLIChoosing Our Cross with Wisdom: A Folktale for Living and Leading. /LIP/PPElena Antonacopoulou and Regina Bento /PP/PPLIKing Popiel the killer mice and the story of the postlie leadership /LIP/PPMonika Kostera and Micha Izak/PP/PPLIThe Wisdom of Others Cultural Acclimatization and Engaged Leadership/LIP/PPTim Gilmanevck/PP/PPLIA Tale from the AhAh Country/LIP/PPElen Riot/PP/PPLILaocon Leadership and Wisdom/LIP/PPRobin Holt/PP/PPLIHow You Wanna Go?: Learning from the Unfortunate Rake/LIP/PPMatt Statler/PP/PPLIStories of Merlin as Tales of Wisdom/LIP/P/OLBLOCKQUOTEPWendelin Kpers/P/BLOCKQUOTEP/PIPIndex /PP/P