Narrative Change - How Changing the Story Can Transform Society, Business, and Ourselves

Hans Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change. He unpacks the lessons of the fight to change capital punishment in Texas, revealing how narratives shape our everyday lives and how we can construct new narratives to enact positive change.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. No Place to Hide
2. Talking Narratives
3. How the Change Model Emerged
4. Applying the Model
5. The Narrative Stranglehold
6. Enacting New Narratives
7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction
8. Narratives as a Way to Organize
9. A Narrative for You
10. Big Ideas and Narrative Modes
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Hans Hansen is associate professor of management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he is also the director of the Center for Innovative Organizations, and an Embrey Human Rights Fellow at Southern Methodist University. He is coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (2008).

Summary

Hans Hansen offers readers a powerful model for creating significant organizational, social, and institutional change. He unpacks the lessons of the fight to change capital punishment in Texas, revealing how narratives shape our everyday lives and how we can construct new narratives to enact positive change.

Additional text

I started out thinking this was the best business book I have ever read. I was wrong. It’s the best book I’ve ever read. Period.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Hansen, Hansen Hans
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231184427
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18442-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Texas, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science, Management decision making, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Capital Punishment