Dante in the Workplace: How Leaders Can Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins
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How can leaders learn to embrace humility to foster collaboration? How can gratitude be cultivated to foster an environment of comradery? And how do leaders practice emotional intelligence in different situations to navigate conflicts and make rational decisions?
Blending classical literature and philosophy, this latest book from Professor Santiago Iniguez draws inspiration from Dante Alighieri’s “Purgatorio” to explore how leaders can cultivate management virtues to counter the vices that hinder organizational success. Taking readers on a captivating journey, this book contains real-world anecdotes from business situations to offer valuable insights for modern-day leaders.
Beginning with an introduction to “Purgatorio”, where the protagonist, guided by the poet Virgil -who in the book is featured as a Chatbot-, ascends the mountain of purgatory, overcoming various vices that symbolize the human condition. Each terrace of the mountain represents a specific vice, and as Dante confronts them, he purifies his soul to achieve the virtues needed to reach paradise. Drawing parallels from Dante’s journey, the book delves into the realm of leadership and organizational management, where leaders are faced with their own set of vices in the form of workplace challenges. It explores:
- Pride vs. humility
- Envy vs. gratitude
- Wrath vs. patience
- Sloth vs. diligence
- Greed vs. generosity
- Gluttony and Lust vs. moderation
With real-life anecdotes from different industries, showcasing how leaders encountered and effectively countered these vices through the cultivation of management virtues, the book offers a unique and valuable perspective on leadership, decision making and organizational dynamics.
Santiago Íñiguez de Onzoño joined IE Business School in 1991 as Professor of Strategic Management. He served as Director of External Relations from 1995 to 2004, when he was appointed Dean of the School. Under his leadership has positioned itself as a leading center of learning for managers and entrepreneurs, being ranked No. 1 in the world of Online MBAs. Íñiguez de Onzoño has also been the driving force behind IE’s strategic alliances with universities like Ivy League member Brown University (US), and the creation of the FT-IE Corporate Learning Alliance (Headspring), a platform for premium executive education programs run jointly with Financial Times. Iñiguez de Onzoño has served since the summer as Chairman of AACSB, an international accrediting body based in the US, being the first dean of a non-US School to hold the position.
He is the author of “The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are Reinventing Education” (2011), “Cosmopolitan Managers: Executive Education That Works” (2016), Global Leaders (2019), and “In An Ideal Business: How the Ideas of 10 Female Philosophers bring Values, Meaning, and Innovation to the Workplace” (2020), as well as co-editor of “Business Despite Borders: Companies in the Age of Populist Anti-Globalization” (2018), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.