When Raf Stevens first challenged me to present more examples of good storytelling two years ago this month, I scarcely imagined I would later get involved in his effort to produce an important new ebook in the applied-storytelling space. I had criticized the lack of storytelling quality among the winners … Continue reading
Category Archives: Organizational Storytelling
Watch These Two Powerful Messages about Storytelling
Here are two resources that convey a point of view about storytelling in audiovisual fashion. My friend Karen Dietz turned me on to the 15-minute video, The Arc of Storytelling, noting: Run, don’t walk to watch this incredibly inspiring video about what we are all searching for in our storytelling. … Continue reading
How Storytelling Compares to Corporate Speak
Lou Hoffman‘s telling infographic has been making the rounds this week. In the blog post in which he introduced it, he writes: “… we contend there’s often a gap between the content developed by the PR function and the type of content needed by journalists, bloggers and other influencers. Our … Continue reading
Describing Storytelling’s Benefits to Business People
I’ve been running excerpts from the first and second parts of storyteller Eric James Wolf’s interview with me. In this excerpt, he asked me how I describe the benefits of storytelling to other people in the business world. My response: I call upon the gurus who evangelized storytelling long before … Continue reading
Convergence of Thoughts on Storytelling for Internal Communications
Not long ago, Nishwa Ashraf asked readers of The Melcrum Blog if they prefer the communication on the left or the one on the right: The one on the left is obviously a story, while the one on the right is essentially a platitude intended to convey a company value. … Continue reading
Corporate Reticence to Tell Stories, and How a Story Matrix Can Help
Why have I never encountered David Hutchens until recently? I was captivated by his article, Applications of Narrative and Storytelling as an Organizational Discipline; or Why Organizational Communication in the 21st Century May Find its Salvation in Talking Animals, which he initially created for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Outlearning … Continue reading
A Broader Spectrum of Business Novels
I recently recapped the “business novels” I’ve covered here on A Storied Career and then received an e-mail from Omar Adams with a link to 50 All-Time Best Business Novels. I thus realized that perhaps I need to more specifically define the kind of business novel I’ve written about here. … Continue reading
More Boje: Storytelling Consulting Bibliography
I wrote recently about the site scholar David Boje has set up, StoryOrgs, where folks can ask questions about the organizational storytelling concepts he researches and writes about. Another of the vast resources Boje offers online popped onto my radar recently and is worth sharing: David Boje’s Annotated Bibliography on … Continue reading
Storytelling and Postmodernism
Recently, storyteller Eric James Wolf turned the tables on me. I’ve conducted more than 57 Q&As with story practitioners — and now Eric has done a Q&A with me. I thought it would be worthwhile to excerpt some of it here because it explains some of my philosophies and approaches … Continue reading
Questions About Organizational Storytelling, Linguistic Sensemaking, Antenarrative?
David Boje is one of the leading scholars of organizational storytelling. I encountered large bodies of his work while in my PhD program, and I must admit it takes me an enormous amount of effort and brain power to wrap my head around his research and concepts. But he has … Continue reading