Now the fourth edition of the original management classic features vivid, full-color illustrations! Find out why Robert Fritz calls this fable "a true classic" that demonstrates how "a good story can be one of the best sources of profound change." Available in more than a dozen languages, "Outlearning the Wolves" continues to find new audiences and win the hearts of those who embrace its lessons. Yet, it is fair to say that the central message of this deceptively simple tale is almost as radical today as it was when it first published nearly two decades ago. As Fritz observes, it is still the rare organization that appreciates the insight that the sheep in the story discover: "Individual learning, good as it is, does not necessarily translate into organizational learning. The learning must become collective." That is why this book continues to be such an important resource for innovators determined to confront the wolves of complacency in their organizations by stimulating people's natural desire to creatively improve their results--together.

Outlearning the Wolves: Surviving and Thriving in a Learning Organization (Learning Fables)

Business & Money

Hutchens, David

Processes & Infrastructure

Hutchens Publishing

The second edition of the organizational learning classic has been revised and updated... and now features vivid, full-color illustrations! Boogie the caveman is on a quest to understand how his people have become stuck in beliefs that drastically limit their ability to share insights and make progress. Join his hilarious journey of discovery and learn how to surface, share, and challenge your own and others' hidden beliefs and to recognize how they inform--and often misinform--what we do. With its engaging use of metaphor and detailed discussion guide, Shadows of the Neanderthal is a must-have resource for any organization on its own quest for clear and open communication.

Shadows of the Neanderthal: Illuminating the Beliefs that Limit Our Organizations (Learning Fables)

Management & Leadership

A fable based on the New Testament and God's relationship with humanity, in which the author tries to reconnect with his characters and establish control over the story.

Pageland: A Story About Love

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

B & H Pub Group

The action-based guide to powerful, influential organizational storytelling Circle of the 9 Muses captures the best practices of the world's most influential story consultants and knowledge workers to help you find, tell, and draw value from your organizational stories as impetus for action. This rich toolbox is loaded with fun, graphical instructions and dozens of unique, replicable, and facilitated processes that require no special training or expertise. You'll discover your organization's hidden narrative assets, use different templates and frameworks to tell the stories of your past, present, and future and then draw team members into rich meaning-making dialogue that translates into action. These activities can be exercised in endless permutations, and expert advice steers you toward the right activity for a specific purpose, including managing change, setting strategy, onboarding, defining the brand, engaging supporters or customers, merging cultures, building trust, and much more. Organizational storytelling is a powerful managerial tool and an essential change management technique. This is about your influence as a leader. Knowing the right story to tell and how to deliver it effectively gives you and your organization enormous influence, and helps connect employees to strategy by providing understanding, belief, and motivation in their personal contribution. This book is the ultimate field guide to becoming an influential storyteller, with concrete, actionable guidance toward all the storytelling fundamentals. <ul>
<li>Identify your organization's "narrative assets"</li> <li>Craft an elegant, well-constructed organizational story</li> <li>Capture, bank, and share stories with extraordinary engagement</li> <li>Facilitate a dialogue to draw out meaning and induce change</li> </ul>
The growing interest surrounding organizational storytelling has many change agents focused on "trying to tell better stories," but goals are useless without a plan of action. Circle of the 9 Muses helps you weave narrative wisdom into organizational development activities, engaging employees and driving change.

Circle of the 9 Muses: A Storytelling Field Guide for Innovators and Meaning Makers

wiley

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Learn how to become an amazing leader! A Slice of Trust by David Hutchens and Barry Rellaford teaches managers and leaders of all levels how companies that develop trust within the workplace can increase their value, efficiency, and innovation. This delightful fable follows Simon the Pieman who isn't as simple as everyone thinks. He serves pie to his customers along with his trust, one slice at a time. Trusting wisely and weighing the risks against the opportunities, Simon succeeds in his business, teaching an old dog, Sebastian, some new tricks along the way. Inspired by Simon's trust, Sebastian learns a valuable lesson about the importance of extending trust, weighing out risks to exercise "smart trust," and the importance trust plays in leadership. With a forward written by Stephen M.R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust, A Slice of Trust is the secret to building the necessary leadership skills needed to maintain a working environment that spurs creativity and collaboration. Chapters include: <ul>
<li>In Which a Pieman Adopts an Unusual Business Strategy</li> <li>The Fruits of Trust</li> <li>Into The Marketplace</li> <li>Sebastian's Trust Experiment</li> </ul> David Hutchens has made a career of delivering big ideas to broad audiences in compelling ways. He has helped create groundbreaking learning solutions for IBM, Walmart, Sam's Club, The Coca-Cola Company, Eli Lilly, Merck, Nike, BellSouth, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is creator and author of The Learning Fables—a series of books, published by Pegasus Communications (Waltham, MA), which teach organizational structures, strategy, learning, and leadership as well as corporate responsibility and business ethics. The globally popular series includes the titles Shadows of the Neanderthal, The Lemming Dilemma, Listening to the Volcano and the perennial favorite Outlearning the Wolves. The unique combination of clever stories, sound business theory, and delightful illustrations have made the books a hit in corporate boardrooms, MBA programs, and even among groups of schoolchildren. The Learning Fables have sold more than 200,000 copies and have been published in more than a dozen languages. David developed The Speed of Trust Simulation, an engaging discovery learning experience that is co-branded with Stephen M.R. Covey and based on his best-selling book, The Speed of Trust. He also developed The Speed of Trust Meeting in a Box. David's programs have been recognized with distinctions such as ASTD's Excellence in Practice award, and HR Magazine's Training Product of the Year. 
David lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Robbie, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Together they founded and operate Signet House LLC, a counseling center that serves the middle Tennessee area. They have two children, Emory and Ollie. They all like pie. www.DavidHutchens.com Barry Rellaford is a leadership development expert. He founded GreatWork, which helps clients reach their goals by focusing on the strengths and passions of individuals, teams, and organizations to perform meaningful work. His clients include Procter &amp; Gamble, Microsoft, Toyota, Intel, Nike, and the University of Texas Medical Branch, among others. Barry is a co-founder of CoveyLink, the predecessor to FranklinCovey's Global Speed of Trust practice. Today he balances his trust work with his own practice, GreatWork, where he inspires individuals and organizations to perform meaningful and purposeful work. As an international speaker and consultant, he has shared transformational ideas about leadership and trust with people from over 100 countries. His clients include Procter &amp; Gamble, Boeing, the Defense Finance &amp; Accounting Service, LEGO, the City of Miami Beach, and the US Veterans Administration. Barry currently serves as the chair of the Storytelling in Organizations special interest group of the National Storytelling Network and continues to bring meaning into play with organizations and leaders. Barry is a key faculty member of the Purpose Project Guild, based in the University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing. Barry and his wife, Lorilee, met in France and now live in Utah with their children. They, too, like pie. Barry's interests outside of work include family activities, music, reading, people development, and the American West.

Slice of Trust: The Leadership Secret with the Hot & Fruity Filling

Rellaford, Barry

Business Culture

Gibbs-Smith

Robert Fritz calls this fable a true classic that demonstrates how "a good story can be one of the best sources of profound change." Now available in 11 languages, the book continues to find new audiences and win the hearts of those who embrace its lessons. Yet, it is fair to say that the central message of this deceptively simple tale is almost as radical today as it was when Pegasus first published it 10 years ago. As Fritz observes, it is still the rare organization that appreciates the insight that the sheep in the story discover: "Individual learning, good as it is, does not necessarily translate into organizational learning. The learning must become collective." That is why this book continues to be such an important resource for innovators determined to confront the wolves of complacency in their organizations by stimulating people s natural desire to creatively improve their results-together.

Outlearning the Wolves: Surviving and Thriving in a Learning Organization: 10th Anniversary

Pegasus Comminications, Inc.

Boogie the caveman is on a quest to understand how his people have become stuck in beliefs that drastically limit their ability to share insights and make progress. Join his hilarious journey of discovery and learn how to surface, share, and challenge your own and others' hidden beliefs and to recognize how they inform--and often misinform--what we do. With its engaging use of metaphor and detailed discussion guide, Shadows of the Neanderthal is a must-have resource for any organization on its own quest for clear and open communication.

Shadows of the Neanderthal: Illuminating the Beliefs that Limit Our Organizations

Pegasus Communications

The Lemming Dilemma introduces the crucial organizational learning discipline of personal mastery--the evolving process of self-awareness that enables people to create new possibilities for themselves and their organizations. In this engaging story, Emmy the lemming wakes up to her own purpose and vision, and defies the age-old urge to follow the other lemmings off the cliff. But Emmy goes far beyond a mere rejection of tradition. Through her own surprising choices, she inspires other lemmings to wake up to their missions and to pursue their deepest aims and visions--both individually and collectively. In this simply told story are profound lessons about what it means to be the leader of your own life and to share your vision with others. Includes questions for reflection and group discussion.

The Lemming Dilemma: Living With Purpose, Leading With Vision

A group of enterprising penguins with a yen for juicy clams teams up with some walrus colleagues to harvest aseemingly endless supply for all. The good news attracts penguins and walruses from icebergs far and wide who join in the work and the delectation. But on the way to establishing a clam lovers' paradise, territorial skirmishes arise, clumsy walruses flatten penguins, and confusion reigns. 
Can the penguins discover the hidden connections that have turned spiraling success into frustration and social upheaval? Only when they learn to see what is invisible are they able to stop their paradise from unraveling and take steps to creat sustainable prosperity. 
The Tip of the Iceberg vividly illustrates how organizations can be trapped by systems when they fail to understand them. The story and discussion guide will help managers sort through the complexity of surface-level events and discover how to take effective actions that create the results they desire.

The Tip of the Iceberg: Managing the Hidden Forces That Can Make or Break Your Organization

Economics

Storytelling is humanity’s oldest way of connecting to others. But for businesses and managers, it can also be a powerful tool to help organizations grow and thrive.\nA leader’s role is to create engagement and belief so that people will act. And there’s no more powerful way to grab attention, be remembered, and engage action than by telling stories—about who you are, what you do, and why you do it.\nToday, “storytelling” is a hot topic in organizations… but most leaders still struggle to act upon it. How do we find and tell our stories 
quickly, in an environment of urgency where we can hardly pause to catch our breath? For more than a decade Hutchens has tested his method of rapid and strategic story development with innovation teams in Silicon Valley, across global Fortune 100 leadership teams, and more. Hutchens has honed a unique process that is active, potent, and strategically focused . . . and also a lot of fun. \nIn 
Story Dash, Hutchens shares a repeatable process to find, develop, and deploy your “narrative assets”—that is, your urgent core stories that hold value. Even better, he will help you do it FAST; often in less than a day.\nStory Dash will help you to:\n• Access your natural capacity for storytelling\n• Find your stories—and figure out which ones to tell\n• Build your narrative so it lands with unforgettable impact\n• Find your own voice of authentic leadership\n• Bring more of 
who you are to your teams and your markets\nFully illustrated and written in a clear, sharp voice, 
Story Dash shares the fastest way to find lots of stories that will create action around the work you care about most.

Story Dash: Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most Valuable Business Stories . . . In Just a Few Hours

Matt Holt

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