Stories
These blog posts are about stories and how we tell them, share them, and make sense of them.
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Story games
This post is about story games, in three ways. First, it is an announcement to my readership that, due to the lamentable fact that I am apparently incapable of making any utterance less than five pages long, I will be switching to biweekly posts for the foreseeable future. I just can’t keep up this level Read more
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Depth and breadth in organizational narrative
Last night I finished reading The Pillars of the Earth, a historical novel by Ken Follett about the middle ages. I wanted to read the novel because I enjoyed the miniseries, which I fell into watching on Netflix purely by chance (all right! it was because I saw Matthew MacFadyen and Rufus Sewell in it). Read more
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Motivation through the ages
While rewriting Working with Stories I’ve been making the rounds through some old projects and visiting some of my favorite patterns. One particular pattern has come up in so many projects — ten? fifteen? — that I think it might be of interest to others. It has to do with generations, organizations, and motivation. This Read more
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What stories are for
Here is the state of things at the moment. The first in a series of blog posts on “limiting misconceptions about complexity in organizations and communities” has begun to peek out and explore its surroundings, but I don’t have the time this week to help it get on its feet. Several smaller, weaker siblings, some Read more
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Characters in search of sensemaking, and vice versa
This post is about narrative sensemaking and play at the level of society. It will take a circuitous course, so come and stroll with me. The grand charade To start with, I’ve been watching how people are contributing to Haiti lately, for some reason. I’ve been amazed by the “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon (and Read more