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Fables and the Art of Leadership This page intentionally left blank Fables and the Art of Leadership Applying the Wisdom of Mister Rogers to the Workplace byDonnaD.MitroffandIanI.Mitroff fablesandtheartofleadership Copyright©DonnaD.Mitroff,IanI.Mitroff,andtheFredRogersCompany, 2012. Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN:978–1–137–00308–9 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData 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. HD57.7.M582012 658.4(cid:2)092—dc23 2012024487 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:December2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ThisbookisdedicatedtothememoryandlifeofFredMcFeelyRogers.He willalwaysliveinourhearts. This page intentionally left blank 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
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