Storytelling organizational practices : managing in the quantum age / David M. Boje.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Preface: storytelling practices in the quantum age are pragmatic; Part I Introduction to pragmatic storytelling; 1 What is organizational storytelling?; 2 A brief history of American and European pragmatic ethics; 3 What are the twelve paths of COPE pragmatic storytelling?; 4 What is pragmatic storytelling in the quantum age?; Part II Pragmatic storytelling theory; 5 Brief history of storytelling theories and philosophies; 6 Materiality storytelling rhetorics 7 Quantum storytelling hermeneutics8 Pragmatic storytelling of spirituality in organizations; Part III COPE pragmatic storytelling praxes; 9 "Whatever works" storytelling praxes of organizations from elevator pitch to storytelling branding; 10 Critical pragmatic storytelling: a critique of appreciative inquiry, elevator pitch, stump speech,and springboard praxes; 11 Ontological pragmatic storytelling: storytelling the unstoryable by restorying, storytelling field concept,and ontological coaching praxes; 12 Post-positivist pragmatic storytelling: new experiments in open systems praxis 13 Epistemic pragmatic storytelling: restorying knowledge management and appreciative inquiry storytelling praxesPart IV Pragmatic storytelling research methods; 14 Critical pragmatic storytelling methodology; 15 Ontological pragmatic storytelling methodology; 16 Post-positivist pragmatic storytelling methodology; 17 Epistemic pragmatic storytelling methodology; 18 S5 research: putting COPE storytelling pragmatic methods together with science, spirituality, sustainability, and spirals of experimentation; 19 Autoethnography method: dinner with Zygmunt Bauman 20 Epilogue: dragons and quantum shamanic storytellingGlossary of pragmatic storytelling terms; Bibliography; Index.

Once upon a time the practice of storytelling was about collecting interesting stories about the past, and converting them into soundbite pitches. Now it is more about foretelling the ways the future is approaching the present, prompting a re-storying of the past. Storytelling has progressed and is about a diversity of voices, not just one teller of one past; it is how a group or organization of people negotiates the telling of history and the telling of what future is arriving in the present. With the changes in storytelling practices and theory there is a growing need to look at.