informal coalitions

Storytelling and informal coalitions

The Cognitive Edge weblog contains an interesting exchange on the nature and role of storytelling in organizations. It was prompted by blog author Dave Snowden's reading of an article by Gabrielle Dolan of One Thousand and One, an Australian consultancy specialising in storytelling as a tool for organisational development. Dave Snowden is well known for his work on the role of narrative and complexity theory in organizational sensemaking.

My comment on the discussion from an informal coalitions perspective is reproduced below.

The negative spaces of organizational dynamics #3 - Leadership implications

In two earlier posts (#1- A metaphor and #2 - The limits of rationality and either-or thinking), I speculated on the insights that negative-space drawing (as described in Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain) might offer in relation to organizational change and development. This third and final post draws out some of the implications for leading organizations and makes some links to the informal coalitions view of organizational dynamics.

Research shows importance of politics in leading organizations

The UK's Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Warwick Business School have jointly published a report which highlights the critical importance of political awareness to effective organizational leadership.  Entitled Leading with Political Awareness, the report aims to develop leaders' skills to manage the political dimension in organizations.