Lens 6 of 6 · Chapter Seven
Application
Three positions: telling, replotting, reading
In plain terms
The practical chapter, and the organising logic of this site. The same constitutive claim looks different from three positions: constructing a narrative, helping someone else see and replot theirs, and interpreting a narrative you are being told. Each carries different obligations.
What the chapter argues
From the abstract to Chapter Seven: ApplicationThis closing chapter offers another way to translate the book’s main ideas into practice by considering three different positions: the storyteller or ‘leader’ who is setting out a narrative; the coach who works alongside a leader helping them to identify the narrative they are stuck inside and find a way to replot it; and the person being told the story, whether employee, board member, investor, or anyone who needs to read an organisational narrative through a critical lens.
Related concepts
Terms you will meet in this chapter, kept in the author's vocabulary:
One short example
A question to sit with
Which of the three positions are you actually in right now — and would the people around you agree with your answer?
Where to go next
This lens is developed in Chapter Seven: Application.
Related tools: All four tools
Related cases: Mapping the narrative landscape · Pre-scripting the emotional sequence
Status: the abstract above is quoted directly from the manuscript · surrounding text is site-written · author review required