Storytelling

As long as we can remember as a race, the telling of stories has shared a unique relationship with man. More recently we have embraced corporate storytelling to create purposeful and goal-directed activity. While a number of papers are being shared below (and more of this work will be shared at a later date), our use of story overlaps with many other areas. 

Storytelling: The Thread of Humanity.  Extensive overview treatment of the forms of story including myths, folktales and transformational tales, story as knowledge, the value of personal storytelling, the moral purposes of stories, the use of story in healing, the use of stories in organizations, and he future of storytelling. (PDF, 24 pages)

Storytelling: The Thread of Humanity presentation. (PowerPoint, 9 slides)

Storytelling for Operationalising Shared Values: Singapore Armed Forces Core Values Inculcation Project.  Paper prepared for the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in 2007.  A storytelling methodology (the MQI Value Infusion Methodology) is developed to provide processes, tools and methods to facilitate thematic knowledge mobilization and knowledge transfer of Core Values embedded in the stories. (PDF, 9 pages) 

See the use of stories to inculcate values in the MQI Value Infusion paper in the Values area of the Publications section.

See "Exploring the Military Contribution to KBD through Leadership and Values" in the Leadership area of the Publications section. (Includes examples of stories.)

From Stories to Strategy: Putting Organizational Learning to Work.  This paper builds on the unique relationship between stories and organizations to explore the use of stories as strategy and strategy as stories.  There is an application example from the U.S. Department of the Navy. (PDF, 6 pages)