Transforming Organizations: Narrative and Story-Based Approaches

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Achieving true change and innovation depends on our ability to re-imagine and re-author the futures we want our organizations to have – and to open new perspectives and new ways of thinking, being and doing in the process. Narrative approaches and storytelling are powerful tools that can help us create a new future for branding and marketing, change, leadership, organizational learning and development. Gathering contributions by scholars and practitioners from various disciplines, this book provides a unique overview of an emerging field of practice in organizations and communities. Rooted in a narrative conceptual framework, the respective papers describe a broad range of trans-disciplinary applications, tools and methods for effectively working with stories. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii The Narrative Approach to Transforming Organizations (Jacques Chlopczyk, Christine Erlach)....Pages 1-8 The Sun Is Still in My Eyes. Reflecting on the Constructiveness of Life (Wolfgang Tonninger)....Pages 9-19 Change and Transformation in the Storytelling Organization (Jacques Chlopczyk)....Pages 21-34 Six Perspectives on the Role of Story in Creating Flourishing Organisational Futures (Mary Alice Arthur)....Pages 35-54 Transforming Organisations Through the Re-authoring Lens and Practices (Chené Swart)....Pages 55-73 Developing the Future Stories of Companies: Open and Closed Story Worlds (Michael Müller)....Pages 75-88 Storywork: Facilitating the Transformational Power of Story in Brand and Organizational Development (Steph K. Bachmair)....Pages 89-102 Keeping Your Mythos Alive: How to Nourish and Nurture a Business’s Mythos Through Corporate Transformations (Silvia Zulauf)....Pages 103-120 Learning Histories: Re-authoring the Future in the Mirror of the Past (Rik Peters, Karin Thier)....Pages 121-136 Storytelling as a Guiding Leadership Principle: A Framework for Cocreating Narratives with Leaders (Jaana Rasmussen)....Pages 137-154 We Become What We Talk About: How Experimenting with Dialogue Can Change an Organization’s Culture (Jeffer London, John B. McGuire, Filipa Santos)....Pages 155-175 “Disruptive Story-Work” as an Intervention for Organizational Transformation (Yannis Angelis)....Pages 177-195 We Are All Chimeras: Promoting Unity, Diversity, and Ingenuity Through Metaphorical Storytelling (Brooke Hessler, E. D. Woodworth)....Pages 197-214 How to Look Up When You’re Facedown: The Rising Strong Process in Organizations (Katarina Veselko)....Pages 215-231 Re-authoring the Future of Travel and Hospitality: An Inquiring and Generative Re-authoring Practice in Tourism Flanders (Griet Bouwen, Marianne Schapmans, Chené Swart)....Pages 233-252 Re-authoring Careers: Changing the Narratives Around Work for Individuals and Its Impact on Organizations and Society (Marieke Genard)....Pages 253-270 The Magic of a New Beginning: A Personnel Development Department Reinvents Itself the Future of HR. Current Developments and a Methodological Approach to Narrative Transformation of HR Identity (Melanie Gabert)....Pages 271-285 Cultural Approaches Toward Time in Global Organizations (Joanna Sell)....Pages 287-301