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

by Hawkins, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781903816967
• ISBN10: 1903816963
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-23
• Publisher: Business Books

Summary

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

Table of Contents

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