2013

• 2013-12-06

  Return chapter and (drum roll) completion of first book

  The full version of Working with Stories, with all twelve chapters complete, is now up on the web site. I started working on the third edition of the book when I started this blog, in October of 2009, so that makes four years I’ve been working on the rewrite. It’s hard to believe I’ve been… Read more

• 2013-10-22

  Intervention

  Here it is: it’s the intervention chapter for Working with Stories. It came out to eighty-some pages with figures. I’ll throw the table of contents at you, as an advertisement to get you to look at the chapter. Chapter 11: Narrative intervention Ideas for intervention – – – Listening to stories that need to be… Read more

• 2013-08-27

  Getting to priceless (the Mistake Bank book)

  I’d like to start this post by owning up to a mistake. When John Caddell published his excellent book The Mistake Bank a few months back, I promised him I would post a comprehensive review here and on amazon.com. But my level of frustration at my own book being really and truly nearly done led… Read more

• 2013-08-20

  Illustrated

  I’ve just posted an updated version of Working with Stories on the web site. The most interesting thing about the new version is that it has about 300 figures in it. This should put to rest all the “such a long book and no pictures!” comments. I hope you like the pictures. I thought a… Read more

• 2013-07-01

  Finally sensemaking

  I am proud to announce that I have finally released the pre-publication version of the rewritten Narrative Sensemaking chapter for the third edition of my monster book. You can find it on the Working with Stories web site (look where it says “NEW!”). The chapter came out far too long, and it took nearly a… Read more

• 2013-06-05

  Why I Have Not Been Blogging

  See that? It’s a puppy. It’s cute. It’s deceptively cute. Do you value your time? If you do, do not get one of these. They are harder than you think. However: I am writing. The sensemaking chapter is nearly done. It is coming to something like 200 pages. When it is done I will release… Read more

• 2013-01-31

  Tick tock tick tock tick

  This post is about a little thing I’ve been thinking about for a long time. It’s not a story thing, it’s more of a complexity thing, but I’m allowed to talk about that here because I said I would. Clocks to leaves I spend a lot of time looking out of windows. Most of the… Read more

• 2013-01-22

  The Mistake Bank book

  Hey everybody, John Caddell’s Mistake Bank project, about which I’ve written here before, has swung into high gear in the final days of getting it out as an awesome book, with a Kickstarter campaign. Drop everything and go get your advance copy! The book is called The Mistake Bank: How to Succeed by Forgiving Your… Read more

• 2013-01-15

  Neverending

  My last post on this blog was nearly two months ago. That’s the longest gap I’ve had so far in, what is it, three years? I am writing nearly every day, but it is all going into the book. The book? It’s still plodding along like the dear little dogged thing it is. It says… Read more