The Break: Work–Life Balance and Leadership Anno 2016: Reconfiguring Contemporary Leadership through the 2,400-Year-Old Coaching Concept of Protreptic, Walking, and Material Storytelling

Abstract

The chapter elaborates on how to deal with one of the major challenges facing organizations worldwide: stress. The Break enacts a quantum approach to meet the challenges by proposing a combination of three different quantum storytelling technologies – protreptic mentoring, walking, and material storytelling – to enact fruitful breakings of patterns unbecoming. The claim being that the hamster wheel of work–life anno 2016 needs reconfiguration, and the simple yet fruitful manner by which this is done is through acknowledging the benefits of bodies, spaces, and artifacts –as well as the benefits of actually taking a break, discontinuing for a moment in order to continue being better, wiser, and more at ease. This concerns breaks taken as part of the daily routines, as well as outside these routines, in the majesty of nature with time to explore and redirect the course of life in companionships with fellow man as both co-provider of and witness to your elaborations. It is really that simple. The chapter concludes toward a set of dogmas for future reference in addressing these challenges in this manner.

Citation

Strand, A.M.C., Mortensen, J.A. and Larsen, J. (2018), "The Break: Work–Life Balance and Leadership Anno 2016: Reconfiguring Contemporary Leadership through the 2,400-Year-Old Coaching Concept of Protreptic, Walking, and Material Storytelling", Boje, D.M. and Sanchez, M. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78635-671-020181003