Business fable

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.

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 Chicken and the Pig

See also

• Self-help book
• Motivational speaker
• Popular psychology

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