Just a miscellaneous addition to the collection: Storytelling is really about connecting with people in the moment of telling the story. It’s something that happens in a dialogue between the storyteller and the audience. – Lea Thau, executive director of The Moth, a collective of New York City writers, actors, … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Persuasion, Intuition, and Why We Need More Than Facts
Steve Denning provides a good rationale for the disagreement with Mel Kleinman’s article on fact-based hiring that I voiced in this entry. Discussing his work on a chapter on changing minds in his forthcoming book (to be published by Jossey-Bass in September 2007), Denning writes in his newsletter: I looked … Continue reading
Still More Story Products
I like collecting products related to storytelling because I think they illustrate the growing prominence of story in our lives and tend to focus on an aspect of storytelling I’ve become increasingly interested in — storytelling for individual growth, self-actualization, and creating a better future. Another one I spotted while … Continue reading
Some of Us Need More Than Just the Facts …
I could not disagree more with an article on HR.com by Mel Kleinman entitled, “Just the Facts, Please”. (Free registration may be required to read the article). Kleinman’s premise is that hiring should be fact-based because “Unlike impressions or gut reactions that might have been caused by what you ate … Continue reading
A Serious Business Tool
Ed Konczal offers Simple Stories For Leadership Insights, Published by University Press of America. About using storytelling in leadership, he offers these words from others: A serious business tool. “Steven Kerr, who oversees Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs, suggests a simple exercise: Ask your company’s best leaders to name the … Continue reading
Academics in the Organizational Storytelling Field
Israel’s Yigal Chamish contacted me awhile back on the PhD research he (she? I’m sorry, Yigal; I don’t know if you’re male or female) is doing. “My topic is ‘Executives as Storytellers,’ Chamish writes, “and I am looking at executives who use storytelling within their organizations in order to communicate knowledge management. I am interesting on the issue of the tellers, the executives, to see how they develop stories and how they use them.”
In this blog post, Chamish writes more about this research. Excerpt here:
“Executives as Storytellers for communicating knowledge management within organizations” – who else is researching this topic for PhD.?
My research looks at the issue of “Executives as Storytellers for communicate knowledge management within organizations”. This Research is within ARU (Anglia Ruskin University) in the UK, and my supervisor is Prof. Vernon, N. Trafford from the Faculty of Education in ARU.Embarking the PhD. research journey at the end of 2003, I am looking forward to accomplish my research and submitting my Thesis somewhere in mid or end of 2007.
Writing your Thesis is a fascinating and challenging journey, both personally and professionally. I must say that it is full of insightful discoveries and exploration, intellectually.