Business fable
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A business fable (also termed management fiction) is a motivational fable, parable or other fictional story that shares a lesson or lessons that are intended to be applied in the business world with the aim to improve the organizational culture. The genre saw a peak in the early 2000s.[according to whom?]
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 Go-Giver by Bob Burg and David John Mann
- Fish! Philosophy by Stephen Lundin
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim