This is a blogpost I createdI want to raise a new issue: is storytelling the first step or the last step in the journey to revolutionize the world of work. In Steve’s own journey, storytelling seems to have come first. Up till 1996, he was in the grip of traditional management. Then he discovered organizational storytelling and he pursued that through 2010. His new book is about radical management which means that managers have to start organizing things differently: new goals, new role for managers, new ways of coordinating, new values and finally, as a last step, communicating through stories. My own journey is in some ways parallel. It also began with storytelling. Up till 2000, I was a traditional storyteller. From 2000 to 2010, I got involved in organizational storytelling, on some occasions together with Steve. This last year, I have come to deepen my work in interactive storytelling as the first step towards organizing things differently. In Steve’s blog (I love the word revolut...
In real life I was telling stories to someone. There has to be a listener. When I started telling stories to the camera on my computer, I couldn't make it come alive. So I tried to figure out what to do about that. I watched other storytellers telling stories in their living room, I saw them tell outside and I noticed that we are all working our way around the fact, that the listener is not present, is not there. THEN I found out that Zoom has a split screen possibility. FOR a long time I had the idea of inviting artists into a pub here in Edinburgh, where I live. The two of us should then share songs, stories, poems what ever. THEN came the C-19. I was trying to figure out what to do here in my room in Edinburgh and a thought came to me. I could combine the two, the meetings between two artists and the Zoom split screen. I have now made a series of these online meetings and I call them DuEtS. That is the story of how DuEtS came to be. Two artists, four or three e...
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