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Stories

It's a challenging time to run an organisation. Everything around us is changing with a good degree of randomness, and planning of any kind can feel like an exercise in futility.

Plans have become vehicles of hope describing what we want to happen. Chock full of evidence and data which like a resumé give no real indication of how effective they will be in the circumstances in which they will find themselves.

The same is true of "solutions" that exude confidence even though consultants often have less practical idea of what to do than their clients, but have something that once worked at a moment in time for somebody else, in different circumstances. It will be beautifully presented and probably carry "best practice" somewhere in it's marketing. Solutions as something like Aspirin, sold as a quick fix without really understanding how they work or what their side effects might be.

Stories though, at first sight, seem to hold promise. They have deli…