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Stories for management success : the power of talk in organizations.
"We tend to assume that we may divide our activities into talk and action. In so doing we tend to suggest that talk is subordinate to action. Taking issue with these presumptions, Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers do....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Colección: | Routledge focus on business and management.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Managerial work; Notes; 3. Organizational storytelling; Sensemaking and sensegiving perspectives; 4. Reports, opinions and proto-stories; â#x80;#x98;Reportsâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Opinionsâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Proto-storiesâ#x80;#x99;; â#x80;#x98;Poetic talesâ#x80;#x99;; The â#x80;#x98;6Fsâ#x80;#x99; of narratives; Reporting â#x80;#x98;Tank Manâ#x80;#x99;; The essence of stories; Storytelling in guru seminars; The poetic tropes; The arrangement of narrative resources; Notes; 5. Putting stories to work; 1 What do I want to achieve?
- 2 Given my intended audience, are my stories actually plausible?3 Are my storytelling practices unwittingly exclusionary?; 4 Do I actually live up to the practical or behavioural exemplars that feature in my stories?; 5 Are my tales bland?; 6 Is my storytelling overly vulnerable to revision and contestation?; Notes; 6. Concluding comments; Bibliography; Index.