Recommended Reading
"Stories and the Inner Game of Leadership", by Dr. Neil Stroul In all our work, my Kenning Associates colleagues and I focus on a particular aspect of being human, meaning-making. Human experiences are woven together to create a sense of coherence or continuity. We live in time, in which our present experiences relate to both our past and our future by a subjective sense of sequence. We perceive that sequence as a narrative. In other words, we make sense of our experiences by representing them as stories. In its simplest form, a story is nothing more than our account of the relationship between an effect ("what happened") and its cause. In fact, any time we hear another person use the word "because" we may as well prepare ourselves to listen to a story....Read full article.
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