Foreword
One of the great modern parables for working adults is the children’s story The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis. In that book, which is part of the Chronicles of Narnia series, two children named Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb are drawn to a magical kingdom by Aslan, a godlike lion who oversees that world. The lion takes Jill to a mountaintop and tells her that she and her friend will have to make their way through a series of dangerous adventures in the valleys below to rescue a lost prince. They will safely fulfill their quest, he says, if they follow four signs: they must greet an old friend when they first see him, they must journey north to an old city, they must follow instructions written there in stone, and they will ...
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