This BLOG focuses on #change; #personal growth; #organization change; the skills, knowledge and everyday tools to achieve this! It is driven by values of friendliness, anticipation of the needs of others, and creating fond farewells! “In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos 2010 Extract from Commencement Speech at Princeton
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
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Nancy Duarte has a simple but extremely effective structure to analyse and deliver a great story. Something that could help change consultants and managers tremendously. I also uploaded a one slide presentation that shows the use in the MLK "I Have a Dream" speech.
Both the slide and the video are included in this post.
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
Myth the Highest Form of Story Telling
Because myth is (in my opinion) the highest form of story telling it also needs to considered when change is initiated. All change lead to cultural change (they way we do things here), especially in transformation change should we therefore consider contexts, which are reflected in the symbols, rituals and stories relevant to the organization, community and eventually society.
Maybe the deciphering of context, and creation of new context is the first task of the change leader.
Devutt illustrates this wonderfully in the video. Here are two quotes to captivate your attention:
"If you understand the difference between 'the world' and 'my world,' you understand the difference between logos and mythos. 'The world' is objective, logical, universal, factual, scientific. 'My world' is subjective. It's emotional. It's personal. It's perceptions, thoughts, feelings, dreams. It is the belief system that we carry. It's the myth that we live in"
"Depending on the context, depending on the outcome, choose your paradigm. You see, because both the paradigms are human constructions. They are cultural creations, not natural phenomena. And so the next time you meet someone, a stranger, one request: Understand that you live in the subjective truth, and so does he. Understand it. And when you understand it you will discover something spectacular. You will discover that within infinite myths lies the eternal truth. Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes. Indra, a hundred. You and I, only two. Thank you. Namaste"
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