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“How can I know what I think until I see what David Boje says? What he says about storytelling will forever change what we thought we knew about stories. With remarkable control over a complex argument, Boje recovers, re-punctuates, and re-animates a world of narrative and sensemaking that we have previously taken for granted!”
- Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Few people understand stories and storytelling as well as David Boje. It is a measure of Boje's success as a theorist that the word story can never reclaim the innocence and simplicity it once enjoyed. Nor, with the benefit of his work, can organizations be viewed as spaces which occasionally or incidentally spawn stories. Boje's eagerly awaited book forces us to question many of our assumptions of about storytelling; it also demands that we revise several of our assumptions about what organizations are.
All the best
Yiannis Gabriel
The School of Management
Royal Holloway University of London
“A must-read for anyone working in the strategy area as well as a true breakthrough in the strategic story field. David not only gives us an extremely well researched and thoughtful critique of strategic management, but presents many new and powerful ways of working with strategy. Strategists, organization designers, and anyone involved with organizational storying will find a lot to enjoy and use here. Fantastic!”
Daved Barry
UNL/Banco BPI Chair in Creative Organization Studies
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Our company is made up of lots of stories. We’ve found that “stories” get told and retold and become the fabric of an organization. “Policies” lay unread in the company handbook or training manual. David Boje taught me the value of stories in an organization. Stories are the “oil” that makes the gears work. How do you get your message heard in an organization with thousands of people? David Boje taught me the value of telling stories at Stew Leonard’s!" - Stew Leonard Jr. Stew Leonard Organization
Acknowledgements and dedication
INTRODUCTION: Eight Ways of Sensemaking
PART I: COMPLEXITY OF STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 1 What is the difference between System and Complexity Ways of Storying (holographics)?
Chapter 2 When Dialogue and Dialectic is not enough (dialogism)?
Chapter 3 When multiple Collective Memories meet?
PART II: STRATEGY FOR STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 4 When Strategy is done by Multiple Stakeholders (polyphony)?
Chapter 5 When Oral, Text, and Visual Strategies are aligned (stylistics)?
Chapter 6 When Strategies of Time and Space meet (chronotopes)?
Chapter 7 When Cognitive, Aesthetic, and Ethical Strategies Interanimate (architectonics)?
Chapter 8 When Polyphony, Stylistics, Chronotopes, and Architectonics Interact (polypi)?
PART III: CHANGE IN AND BETWEEN STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 9 Changing One Storytelling Organization?
Chapter 10 Changing a Transorganization Network of Storytelling Organizations?
PART IV: METHODOLOGY FOR STORYTELLING ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 11 Living Story Methodology and The Death or Murder of my Aunt Dorothy?
Chapter 12 Symposium with Dead Narrative and Story Authors?
References
Index
Other extra-book resources available at http://storytellingorganization.com