Stories are used for many different purposes in organisations ranging from literal day-to-day stories through specialised stories designed to stimulate change, develop people and teams and even describe the organisations’ future. Stories as used in organisations can be broken down in three major kinds:
- Literal Stories – Literal stories appeal to the logical mind and contain facts, dates, times, places and numbers
- Allegorical Stories – The Allegorical story uses metaphor, symbolism and characters to talk about human experience in a way that the audience can appreciate the underlying meaning.
- Anagogic Stories – These are stories of multi-layered meaning as used in mythologies, legends and fables and stories used in spiritual systems
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very useful categorization! Bravo!
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