This article offers an organizational
metaphor based on an Iranian epic Manteq-o-Teyr or The Logic of Flight. The
metaphor is shaped by the story of a wise hoopoe bird whose dream was to reach
a mountain called Qaf and find the great king of birds called Simurgh or Thirty
Birds. The new enlightenment resonated with the Conference of the Birds,
captures the idea of why and how leader and followers should connect their
consciousness to each other to achieve a higher level of wisdom, mythically
called Simurgh. The story communicates a metaphor that works in favor of
explaining organizational components such as design, structure, environment,
and boundaries in a distributed style of leadership as practiced by the hoopoe
and his follower birds as a community of practice through collective wisdom.
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