A COLLECTION BY MISS EASTERThe Little Book of Corporate Fables
Discover the patterns shaping corporate life for senior accomplished leaders through this slow-burn satire of power, politics, and office life.
You Haven't Been Imagining It
THE UNWRITTEN RULESYou have sat in meetings where everyone agreed and then nothing moved.
You have seen titles stretch and shrink depending on who was in the room.
You have watched a metric become the measure of you as a person.
You have been handed more work as the reward for never having said no to any of it.
These rules for the corporate world were never written down anywhere. There was no policy that explained them or a handbook that named the patterns.
The Little Book of Corporate Fables explains each pattern, names the lesson and leadership implication and gives you the language to change your leadership.
These Fables Are For Leaders Who Were Forced To Learn
The System
You have spent years inside corporate structures and can recognize the patterns in a room within minutes of walking into it.
You are always called reliable, dependable, and available. You've started feeling the cost of those words accumulate.
You are competent by every external measure and still carry a tiredness that promotions and holidays leave untouched.
Your schedule demands too much of your time, leaving you with a few pockets in the day between meetings or commutes
You have read the serious leadership books, absorbed the frameworks, and found that none of them describe this situation you are living inside.
Discover The Language For
How You Have Been Living
A pattern is almost impossible to see while you are standing inside it. You are performing well and being rewarded for it. The corporate leadership shelf is already full of dense books discussing change models, maturity curves, leadership lessons and internal discipline.
This collection takes the oldest teaching form there is and turns it on the modern workplace. The ants, swans, foxes, and peacocks carry the story and allow their behavior to mirror patterns in your own self and the people around you. Each animal is symbolic and surfaces the dynamics across teams in the corporate world.
Every fable takes only 2 minutes to read and closes on a lesson with its leadership implication to take with you into your next work day. Within a few minutes you discover the phrases for what you have been absorbing for years.
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FIVE VOLUMESRead The Forces That Shape
Your Working Life
The collection is arranged into five volumes, each one built around a force that is rarely named out loud. Read them in order or open a volume that matches the week you are having.
Recognize The Systems That Set Terms
Read What The Room Is Saying
Take It Back Into The Building
Volume One examines culture and systems. Identify the difference between a culture and a set of conditions the company created.
Reclaim The Identity You Built To Fit
Locate The Authority You Have Been Carrying
Volume Two examines identity and perception. See where your sense of self becomes dependent on how the room reads you.
Volume Three examines leadership and power. Name the version of authority you have been holding and what it has been costing you.
Volume Four examines pressure and breakdown. Catch the exact point where consistency turns into extraction and eventually burnout.
Volume Five examines communication and silence. Hear the message a room is sending through both spoken words and what is left unsaid.
Every fable closes with a lesson and a leadership implication, so each 2 minute read hands you a phrase for the dynamic you are standing in. Every fable gives you immediate insight and action.
THE COMPANION APPFollow The Fables Beyond The Book
The fables keep unfolding beyond the pages of the book in the companion app, The Little App of Corporate Fables. You receive 2 fables at no cost and keep going from there as new stories are added to the collection.
"These fables are not about villains. But you know they exist. They live in meetings. In metrics. In titles that stretch and shrink. These are not tales of conquest. They are quiet observations from rooms that never quite exhale."
MISS EASTER, LITTLE BOOK OF CORPORATE FABLES
THE VOICE BEHIND THE FABLESMeet Miss Easter
Miss Easter is the literary voice of Monica Clarke-Paqué, founder of The Luxury Coach and leadership coach to accomplished women and senior leaders. She is a Certified Executive Coach partnering with accomplished women who have achieved extraordinary success at the cost of inner exhaustion. She helps women protect their energy, strengthen their presence, and lead with the authority they've already earned.
Her work sits at the intersection of executive leadership, emotional intelligence, and presence. She helps stabilize what is already within you so you can lead with internal authority and navigate pressure in any situation.
CREDENTIALS & RECOGNITION
Certified Executive CoachCEC · ACSTH
CertifiedGenos Certified Practitioner
MemberInternational Coaching Federation
QualifiedSHRM People Manager Qualified
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Decode The Rules Of The Corporate Jungle
By the time you close the book you will have language for the dynamics that shaped years of your working life. You will be able to navigate back to the volume or story when you need it before a meeting or big day.
Name the dynamic in corporate rooms with precise phrases and language for the situation.
Separate a structural problem from a personal failing and put down the weight of carrying everything.
Catch the moment reliability turns into extraction and set the limit to prevent burnout.
Hold your sense of yourself steady when your title or role change by building a grounded identity.
Walk into a difficult conversation with a refined language ready for any outcome.
Step Into The First Story &
Reclaim The Way You Lead
Your corporate career has been teaching you patterns over the years, now you can name and grow beyond them. All it takes is 2 minutes to read a fable and start changing your trajectory.