Appreciative Leadership: Stories at Work
We know who we are because we talk story.
“We learn who we are through stories. Traditions—at work and at home—are shared and maintained in story. Think about the stories your first supervisor told you about what it means to work. Or the stories your grandparents told you. Or the stories you’ve heard around the coffee pot at work recently. What have you learned from these stories?
One of our clients, the CEO of a major telecommunications company, had this realization about stories, ‘Our organization culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and then we forget they are stories. To change our culture we need to change our stories.’”
Whitney, Trosten-Bloom and Rader
Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization
