Category Archives: Organizational Storytelling

A one-day workshop, led by Australia’s leading experts in story listening, teaches you to gather and make sense of stories so as to see revealing patterns and use them to gain traction on solving messy organisational problems or reaching complex goals. Dates and locations: Melbourne 27-Feb-08 Perth 11-Mar-08 Brisbane 27-Mar-08 … Continue reading →

Reinhard Kuchenmuller and his wife, Dr. Marianne Stifel, work for corporate clients doing visual facilitation. In an interview on Projects@Work (may require log-in), Kuchenmiller states: Information presented in visual language as a picture-word combination is understood better and more quickly than information that is solely text-based. This is because information … Continue reading →

“Nothing changes until the story changes,” says Mette Norgaard, who puts on workshops and has written The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work, with workplace wisdom based on Hans Christian Andersen stories. The Circle Project: We provide innovative learning experiences in communities and organizations by creating surprise, energy, depth, and relationship … Continue reading →

STORI stands for STorytelling ORganization Institute, a provider of workshops for consultants, their clients and researchers. S T O R I I N S T I T U T E TWO WORKSHOPS TO CHOOSE FROM in 2008 2008 STORY NOTICING WORKSHOP FOR RESEARCHERS – PLACE: Holiday Inn (Independence Mall) – … Continue reading →

JD Messinger interviewed storytelling guru Terrence Gargiulo on Global Evolution™ CNN Radio about the Art of Story Telling (links below). Messinger’s words: If we pause and think about it, almost everyday and in every conversation, we tell stories. Why do we do that? What is it about a story that … Continue reading →

I won’t be going to the Smithsonian storytelling weekend this year, but I’m sure it will be excellent as usual. There will be a new Thursday evening session on May 8, “Organizational Storytelling 101.” Svend-Erik Engh and Steve Denning will cover the basics of organizational storytelling. The theme of the … Continue reading →

Update, as of Nov. 29: I believe many of the goodies associated
with the book release are still available.

Denning’s book is a centerpiece of “Stories Reveal the Soul of Companies” by Barbara Rose.

Steve Denning’s new book The Secret Language of Leadership:
How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Jossey-Bass)
was released on October 15, 2007. I’m one of the
folks offering bonus gifts for those who buy the book (see below).

Here’s what other leadership experts have said about the book:

Financial Times: “If business leaders do not immediately
grasp the vital insights offered by this book, both they and their
organizations are doomed.”– Stefan Stern, Financial Times,
August 29, 2007.

Jim Kouzes: “I highly recommend you get it today and
read it tonight. Tomorrow will be an entirely different
kind of day if you do. –Jim Kouzes, Co-author of
the best-selling, The Leadership Challenge and A Leader’s
Legacy

James MacGregor Burns: “I don’t think I have ever read a more
compelling preface. And best of all, the advice Denning
gives to the reader about speaking and writing is exemplified
in the way he has written this impressive book.”
–James MacGregor Burns, Author of Leadership

Larry Prusak: “Engaging and erudite, this book draws on very wide
reading and research to help any leader or manager master
the arts of narrative in a way that is both pragmatic and
original.”
–Larry Prusak, Co-author, What’s the Big Idea? and Working Knowledge

To celebrate the launch of the book on Oct. 15, I joined
with Steve and other colleagues, including Larry Prusak,
Jim Kouzes, Seth Kahan, Kevin Eikenberry, Steven Sonsino,
Rob Cross Annette Simmons, Chip Heath, Katalina Groh,
Madelyn Blair, Cliff Atkinson, Shawn Callahan, Svend-Erik Engh,
Lori Silverman, Stan Garfield, and the International Leadership
Association — in offering to purchasers of the book an impressive
array of supplementary bonus tools on leadership, storytelling and
knowledge management, at no additional cost to you.

Here’s how to take advantage of the offer:
you can get the book and all the supplementary leadership tools,
at:
http://www.stevedenning.com/launch.html

Check it out. I think you’ll find this offer
of considerable interest.

PS. Feel free to share this offer with friends and colleagues.

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I’ll be presenting the popular audience version of my dissertation research at this conference this year: GoldenFleece 2007 Successful story processes: From global to local The 5th Annual Conference on the Use of Story and Conversation in Organizations is planned for May 5, 2007, in the Washington, DC, area. This … Continue reading →

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 →

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.

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