By Limor Shiponi Referring to ‘The Untapped Potential of Corporate Narratives’. Narratives exist. We know they exist because of story. In the absence of story, there is nothing that helps us discern narratives and we can’t tap into them. Story, or better – stories, point at connectivity. They are sense-making devices, and what elicits a …
John Hagel: dropping story in favor of narrative is dangerous advice Read More »
By Limor Shiponi Update, April 15th 2013 For now, the teacher is placed on leave. If it’s a temporary step that will help everybody cool down and start thinking, that’s ok. If she is on her way out and by that people think ‘matter solved’ – it’s the wrong thought. I don’t think severe actions …
Good morning class – today we’re going to play Nazis Read More »
By Limor Shiponi Commenting on what’s important in a tale, Peter Fruhmann mentioned ‘Invisible Cities‘ by Italo Calvino, creating the opportunity to re-write an old post I’ve deleted from this blog long ago. It’s an exercise aiming at answering the question: can any story happen to anyone, anywhere? Find the book, read through, and then …
By Limor Shiponi Pulse: I’ve read only half of Rapunzel, didn’t do anything with it, and I’ve practiced the Gorky story. “Can you tell me whatever you have from ‘Rapunzel’?” G reported about the plot shortly, using a mish-mash of popular psychology and emotional kitsch. I repeated his ‘version’ to him. “What do you think …
By Limor Shiponi We opened the session with a “pulse check”, meaning – I wanted to know about ideas arriving during the week, reflections or anything else that might be relevant to the process. Reading and listening opened up a new set of pictures for me. They are different than what I had in mind …