Telling the Story

Geoff Mead 지음

Jossey-Bass 2014년 03월 13일 출간

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Telling the Story is both practical (with tips, exercises and examples) and thought provoking. It argues for a re-enchantment of our disenchanted world and for the recognition of more human and humane values in our organizational lives. The art of narrative leadership is important for senior executives, middle managers and concerned citizens.Distilling the author's considerable experience as a public service leader, research academic, organizational consultant, performing storyteller and leadership coach on top management programmes, Telling the Story shows how leaders affect our understanding of what is possible and desirable through the stories they tell and the stories they live. It opens a door into the world of narrative leadership: what stories are and how they work; when to tell a story and how to tell one well; how the stories we tell (and the language and metaphors we use) influence our actions and shape the way we think about the world. The book also challenges us to consider the purposes behind our stories: what are we leading for? What are the big stories of our time and how can our own stories help to create the kind of future we want for ourselves and our children?

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Acknowledgments xiIntroduction: Turning the Page 1Narrative Leadership 2Once Upon a Time 4Why We Need New Stories 5About This Book 8Water on the Rock 10SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS 13Chapter 1: Why Stories Matter 15Swimming in a Sea of Stories 15Imagining Ourselves 18Imagining Each Other 19Imagining the World 21Changing the Story 26Bonus: Life of Pi 27Summary 28Chapter 2: Rethinking Leadership 31Making Common Sense 33Case Study: The Force Review 38Conclusions 40Bonus: Erin Brockovich 42Summary 43SECTION TWO: ON STORIES 45Chapter 3: Stories in Our Bones 47Logos: The Science of Storytelling 49Mythos: The Story of Storytelling 53Bonus: Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner 60Summary 61Chapter 4: The World of Stories 63Fact, Fiction and Fantasy 63Finding the Plot 71Bonus: Big Fish 74Summary 74Chapter 5: How Stories Work 77Information, Argument, and Story 82Bonus: An Inconvenient Truth 87Summary 88SECTION THREE: NARRATIVE LEADERSHIP 91Chapter 6: The Art of Narrative Leadership 93Vinoba Bhave 98Developing Our Capacity to Lead 105Bonus: Alchemy in Action 109Summary 110Chapter 7: Know Thyself 113The Storied Self 114Being and Doing 117Bonus: Groundhog Day 127Summary 128Chapter 8: Only Connect 131Creating Communicative Spaces 132Listening to the Story 138Conversation Matters 139Whose Stories Count? 141Bonus: Local Hero 144Summary 145Chapter 9: Stand for Something 147Leading Minds 148What Is Your Story? 152Bonus: The Man from Hope 161Summary 162SECTION

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저자(글) Geoff Mead

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Geoff Mead is the founder of Narrative Leadership Associates, a consultancy focused on the use of storytelling for sustainable leadership (www.narrativeleadership.com). As an organizational consultant, keynote speaker and workshop leader, he has taken his work on narrative leadership into the boardrooms of blue chip companies, universities and government departments, for the past two decades.After a successful police career, life took a different turn when he discovered the magic of stories and began to explore their power to liberate the human spirit. Now, he performs traditional stories and runs story-based workshops in the UK and as far afield as Spain, Canada and Japan. His first book Coming Home to Story: Storytelling Beyond Happily Ever After was published in 2011 by Vala (www.valapublishers.coop).Pursuing various academic and research interests, he has been awarded an MBA, a postgraduate diploma in Gestalt psychology and a PhD in personal and leadership development, resulting in his appointment as a visiting research fellow at the University of Bath. He has also designed national public service leadership programmes and served on the faculty of the Prime Minister's Top Management Programme.Geoff has four children, five grandchildren and an entirely unreasonable love of Morgan sports cars. He divides his time between his partner's house in the Cotswolds and Lyme Regis, where he lives and writes in sight of the sea.