1st Edition

Leadership and Wisdom Narrating the Future Responsibly

Edited By Wendelin Küpers, Matt Statler Copyright 2020
250 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Photos

Acknowledgements and Dedication

List of Contributors

  1. The Sandpiper and the Clam Struggle"
  2. Christopher Michaelson

  3. in his chapter titled "Don’t fly too close to the sun
  4. Eugene Sadler-Smith,

  5. Choosing Our Cross with Wisdom: A Folktale for Living and Leading.
  6. Elena Antonacopoulou and Regina Bento

  7. King Popiel, the killer mice and the story of the post-lie leadership
  8. Monika Kostera and Michał Izak

  9. The Wisdom of Others - Cultural Acclimatization and Engaged Leadership
  10. Tim Gilman-Ševčík

  11. A Tale from the Ah-Ah Country
  12. Elen Riot

  13. Laocoön, Leadership and Wisdom
  14. Robin Holt

  15. How You Wanna Go?: Learning from the Unfortunate Rake
  16. Matt Statler

  17. Stories of Merlin as Tales of Wisdom

Wendelin Küpers

Index

Biography

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.