What's Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution

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Rather, we’re talking about accounts that are deeply true and so engaging that listeners feel they have a stake in our success. And on a deeper level, even greater suspicions lurk: ‘Why should I trust that you won’t change your mind about this?

Virginia Woolf and Bob Dylan occupy this slot, along with Strawson himself, who believes that ‘as a whole human being’ he exists continuously over time, but that his self, by which he means the way he experiences himself to be now, is not the same as his self at the age of ten. Tell and retell your story; rework it like a draft of an epic novel until the ‘right’ version emerges.

While he was energized by the interplay between individuals and organizations, he hated the mundane, administrative aspects of the work. In the end, however, there is a touch of desperation about demanding so much of fiction and narrative while acknowledging the ease with which they are abused.

After one of them engaged him for a series of consulting assignments, he was able to convert that relationship into a job as chief administrative officer.

Reading Henry James isn’t likely to put paid to QAnon, but like a good deed in a naughty world it shines a frail light on our unsavoury situation. Reintroducing child labour would be both unfamiliar and inhumane, even though the father of liberalism, John Locke, thought it acceptable for three-year-olds to work in factories. He might have added that there are those who have some narrational days and some non-narrational ones.

In this article, drawing on their long experience with sponsorship, the authors describe six important steps all sponsors should take.In therapy, I encourage clients to consider if there might be more a more generous interpretation of others' or their own behaviors. At a recent networking event, senior managers who’d been downsized out of high-paying corporate jobs took turns telling what they had done before and what they were looking for next. Is a novel that rages against racial equality to be admired just because it questions a common view? Anyway, the preconceptions that matter most may be those we can’t know about, given that they are part of the social air we breathe. I started a master’s program in organizational development, thinking it would at least make me a better leader and hoping it would be the impetus for a real makeover.