Leadership Fable Series

Stories first. The system underneath.

Four novels for people who lead, in which the Paragon Discernment System is never named and always at work. Each is bound in its own cloth and comes with a workbook that makes the architecture plain.

Books

The Paragon Discernment Series

The Purpose Question: front cover, a gold wheat stalk bent into a question mark on ivory
I The Purpose QuestionIn production
The Reading: front cover, a gold leash on a brass hook on deep green
II The ReadingForthcoming
IIIIn preparation
IVIn preparation

Four leadership fablesEach volume is bound in its own cloth. Volumes are named once their manuscripts are finished.

The Purpose Question: front cover. A wheat stalk bends into a question mark above a single grain.

Title No. 1 · The Paragon Discernment Series

The Purpose Question

A Leadership Fable · David Fuller

One question. Nobody wrote it down.

Winona Kingbird has spent eleven years reading Meridian Seed Company the way you read weather. Then, in a boardroom celebrating a miracle wheat, she asks one question about the food itself. Someone laughs. The meeting rolls on. And when the whiteboard is photographed for the record, every action item is on it except hers.

Format Hardcover, first edition Status In production
About the book

Companion to Fable I

The Purpose Question Workbook

Workbook · Fable I

The Purpose Question Workbook: Planting Organizational Purpose in Your Company

The companion to The Purpose Question. Where the novel names nothing, the workbook names everything, and is meant to be carried into a meeting.

Format
6×9 paperback
Status
Forthcoming

Title No. 2

The Reading

A Leadership Fable · David Fuller · Forthcoming

He built the system to prove he was already good. It read him instead.

Robert Averell runs the division that eleven years of a single government contract built. He is celebrated, certain, and humble in all the ways that photograph well. When he installs a decision-traceability system, he sells it to his board as a weapon: proof, in writing, that his people can be trusted. Then the contract is lost, and the system begins, quietly and impartially, to do the only thing it was built to do. It keeps the record.

And the record, read honestly, tells a different story than the one Robert has told about himself for thirty years.

Series
The Paragon Discernment Series, Book Two
Binding
Hardcover, deep green cloth
Companion
The Reading Workbook, five sessions keyed to the five parts
ISBN
979-8-9982194-4-3 (hardcover)

The workbooks

Each fable has a workbook

The novels name nothing. The workbooks name everything: the five movements, the scene where each one failed, the questions, and working pages meant to be carried into a meeting. One workbook per fable, published alongside it.

“Not coming up is not the same as dead. Those are two different things that look exactly alike from above the ground.”
From The Purpose Question