Do you remember ledger clerks? Half a century ago this was still a respected profession: a person who spent his days adding up columns of figures. The calculator arrived — and within a decade the profession simply dissolved. The world did not collapse. Those who knew how to count turned to what demands not arithmetic […]
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I am often asked: which competence should I start with? People hope to hear — with the main one. But narrative intelligence has no main competence. It has an order. Five competences — analytical, creative, dramaturgical, transformational, integrative — are not a menu you order from by taste. They are a cycle. Each one stands
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You have surely sat in a meeting like this one. A new project is being discussed. One person asks: “And how exactly is this going to work?” The second, cutting in before he finishes: “Let’s just start, we’ll figure it out as we go.” The third: “Can’t you see — our last project fell apart
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The team isn’t moving forward. There’s no energy even for what’s obviously good. Every new idea meets: “we already tried that.” This isn’t fatigue. It’s a survival narrative. A team captured by such a narrative physically cannot see opportunities — even when they’re obvious from the outside. You can’t get out of it through motivation.
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It’s not a lack of information. It’s not a lack of thinking. It’s because decisions don’t come from data — they come from narrative. From the story a person tells themselves about the situation. Change the narrative — the decisions change. This isn’t a metaphor. It’s mechanics.
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Values can be written in a day. Culture takes years to form. The difference between them lies in the stories people tell each other in the hallway. Who’s respected here. Who’s tolerated. What actually matters. Want to understand a company’s culture? Don’t read the policies. Listen to the stories.
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George Bernard Shaw said this more than a hundred years ago. Today, it sounds like an exact description of the central challenge facing any leader — in business, in politics, in life. It isn’t a lack of resources that stops change. Nor the team’s resistance. Nor the market. What stops it is the narrative through
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