Leading Ethical Organizational Leadership and Behavior Through True Storytelling: Towards Ethical Consulting to Guide Business Games.

This is a Gilles Deleuze-based perspective on the 'games businesses play,' many of which are ethically unsound and have implications for ways that consulting practices are dissected. Two types of Deleuze's time (Chronos & Aion) are applied to illustrate the genesis of these moral hazards. Chronos, or linear time, includes past and future timelines ad infinitum. Aion, a type of cyclical time, repeatedly slices through Chronos time. Aion is neither linear or cyclical, but dances with Chronos. Consequently, two types of interrelated observer effects are theorized. The first effect, games of chance, or what Boje calls 'bets on the future,' epitomizes everyday aspects of the process of strategizing. Each bet changes the nature of the past. The second effect, found in Deleuze's works, underscores the importance of "now." We then introduce ways these two temporal effects can be utilized for ethical consulting practices. Essentially, this article addresses a novel storytelling method that can expose unethical business practices, leadership, and behavior through ethical consulting. These storytelling methods are germane to organization development because organizations that degrade others also degrade themselves, which has profound business and societal consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]