A business fable is a fable, parable or novel that shares a lesson or lessons that can be applied in the business world. Business fables focus on providing a powerful message for CEOs, executives, senior and middle management, sales teams, human resources, change management, goal setting, inspiration, self-help, leadership, sales and marketing, customer service, winning strategies and overall success.
New York Times bestsellers in the business fable genre include:
- Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
- The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews
- Surviving your Serengeti by Stefan Swanepoel
Other notable business fables include:
- The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Paradox of Excellence by David Mosby and Michael Weissman
- The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and David John Mann
- FISH! philosophy by Stephen Lundin
Famous quotes containing the words business and/or fable:
“Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“But there’s another knowledge that my heart destroys
As the fox in the old fable destroyed the Spartan boy’s
Because it proves that things both can and cannot be;
That the swordsmen and the ladies can still keep company;
Can pay the poet for a verse and hear the fiddle sound,
That I am still their servant though all are underground.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)