Fables and the Art of Leadership: Applying the Wisdom of Mister Rogers to the Workplace

221 Pages·2012·0.57 MB·English

Fables and the Art of Leadership
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Fables and the Art of Leadership
Applying the Wisdom of Mister Rogers to the
Workplace
byDonnaD.Mitroff and IanI.Mitroff
fablesandtheartofleadership
Copyright©DonnaD.Mitroff,IanI.Mitroff,andtheFredRogersCompany,
2012.
Allrightsreserved.
Firstpublishedin2012by
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ISBN:978–1–137–00308–9
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Mitroff,DonnaD.
Fablesandtheartofleadership:applyingthewisdomofMisterRogers
totheworkplace/DonnaMitroffandIanI.Mitroff.
p. cm.
ISBN978–1–137–00308–9(hardback)
1. Leadership. 2. Values. 3. Rogers,Fred.
I. Mitroff,IanI. II. Title.
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part I TheFables
1 Connect 19
2 Concern 23
3 Creativity 27
4 Communication 31
5 Consciousness 33
6 Courage 37
7 Community 39
Part II InterpretationsoftheFables
8 PlanetPurplevs.PlanetPrism 45
9 GoodFriends 55
10 NoBareHandsinThisLand 59
11 TheBassViolinFestival 63
12 TheReluctantRing-Bearer 71
13 OnceUponEachLovelyDay 77
14 DanielTigerandtheSnowstorm 83
15 ConcludingRemarksonLeadership 87
Part III PuttingtheSevenCstoWork
16 SpecializedTopics 95
17 PlanetPurplevs.PlanetPrismRevisited 131
viii ● Contents
18 GoodFriendsRevisited 137
19 NoBareHandsinThisLandRevisited 143
20 TheBassViolinFestivalRevisited 149
21 TheReluctantRing-BearerRevisited 155
22 OnceUponEachLovelyDayRevisited 157
23 DanielTigerandtheSnowstormRevisited 161
24 LeadershipRevisited 163
25 ConcludingTopics 167
Exercises 175
AdditionalReading 183
AbouttheAuthors 185
FredRogers’Biography 189
Notes 193
Bibliography 197
Index 199
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
8.1 ChangeManagementVersusLeadership 53
16.1 SVersusN,SensingVersusIntuition 111
16.2 TVersusF,ThinkingVersusThinking 113
16.3 JVersusP,JudgingVersusPerceiving 114
16.4 FourCombinedTypes 115
16.5 RelationshipsBetweentheSevenCsandSpecial
Topics 128
Table
25.1 MainPersonalityFeaturesoftheMainCharacters 172