Comments on: Court Jesters: An Endangered Species https://raitner.de/en/2020/09/court-jesters-an-endangered-species/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=court-jesters-an-endangered-species Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Marcus Raitner https://raitner.de/en/2020/09/court-jesters-an-endangered-species/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=court-jesters-an-endangered-species/#comment-6947 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:30:15 +0000 https://fuehrung-erfahren.de/?p=13090#comment-6947 In reply to Frank Druhm.

Thanks a lot for this quote, dear Frank. Maybe it’s really like this and I put my efforts in the wrong place …

]]> By: Frank Druhm https://raitner.de/en/2020/09/court-jesters-an-endangered-species/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=court-jesters-an-endangered-species/#comment-6944 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:24:35 +0000 https://fuehrung-erfahren.de/?p=13090#comment-6944 Court jester is not an organizational category. True court jesters are not members of organizations because organizations primarily demand work performance. Suggestions for operational improvements are accessories for which one receives a “warm handshake”. The true and only court jesters have joined the colorful guild of organizational consultants and propagandists for a better, happier, peaceful and successful life. They alone have the freedom to be credible and to succeed, to live — or to fail. Only they are allowed to say ‘outrageous things’ and not to question the organization.
See: Fuchs, Peter (2005): Hofnarren und Organisationsberater — Zur Funktion der Narretei, Hofnarrentum und Organisationsberatung [b]. In: Peter Fuchs: Contours of Modernity. Essays on Systems Theory II. ed. by Marie-Christin Fuchs. Bielefeld: transcript publishing house, S. 17–36

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