Comments on: Telling stories to “work the past” http://www.informl.com/2009/02/17/telling-stories-to-work-the-past/ from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John D. Smith http://www.informl.com/2009/02/17/telling-stories-to-work-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-2104 John D. Smith Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:38:08 +0000 http://www.informl.com/?p=1781#comment-2104 I read this book -- very slowly -- so I really enjoyed it. In a way I think that Linde's non-prescriptive stance is part of the point. It's SO tempting to jump in and tell people how to do things! Think of what a big industry there was instructing people how to instruct people back in the day when the Institute for Research on Learning was studying that (pre-YouTube) insurance company. Who care what their prescriptions were? And yet, Linde's careful observations suggest how things actually work: who tells stories, about what, when, for what purpose. AND who doesn't tell stories and why. AND what stories are not told and why. I think that the effect of YouTube on an organization merits a careful, dispassionate look but it certainly doesn't invalidate the insights that Lidne brings out. Send me your copy if you don't want it: I've got several people I want to foist it on. :-) I read this book — very slowly — so I really enjoyed it. In a way I think that Linde’s non-prescriptive stance is part of the point. It’s SO tempting to jump in and tell people how to do things! Think of what a big industry there was instructing people how to instruct people back in the day when the Institute for Research on Learning was studying that (pre-YouTube) insurance company. Who care what their prescriptions were? And yet, Linde’s careful observations suggest how things actually work: who tells stories, about what, when, for what purpose. AND who doesn’t tell stories and why. AND what stories are not told and why.

I think that the effect of YouTube on an organization merits a careful, dispassionate look but it certainly doesn’t invalidate the insights that Lidne brings out. Send me your copy if you don’t want it: I’ve got several people I want to foist it on. :-)

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