Abstract
In all our humanness we love, hate, resist and create organisations. We live in them, work in them, play in them and we like or dislike our colleagues within them. Often, organisations are the blessing and bane of our waking hours, even our dreams, shaping the fabric of our life stories. It follows that the stories we tell others and ourselves about life at school, on the job, in religious, sports and recreational organisations are the stories of our own lives. Clarifying and acknowledging shared stories in the organisations where we spend our time can improve life in those social entities, and the lives of their inhabitants in the process.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter F. Drucker1
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Allen, R., Krebs, N. (2007). Human Resources. In: Dramatic Psychological Storytelling. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800557_16
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