Aesop's Management Fables

Abstract

The first section of this book for managers is Teaching with Tales. It includes some good stories like The three deaf men and the dumb dervish (8). The second part is Animal Stories. In each of its twelve chapters, there is an animal story, a management case study story, and discussion guidelines for learning from the two stories. The animal story is not really a fable, but it is a pointed fictional story, usually about two pages in length. In the first of these twelve chapters, an inquisitive frog finds a brand new pond and brings his family and friends there--only to die in its polluted waters. The case study story is about an operations manager who makes a bid on restoring a bridge before doing a survey on it. Cost overruns because of the lack of the survey made the company lose money on the project. This manager did not look before he leapt! The third section of the book follows the same format but deals with team rather than individual stories in its five chapters. I will keep in the collection under the same ID number a second copy, which is the reprint of the original printing. I bought the two copies at the same time from the same place!