...Joan Marques; Satinder Kumar Dhiman; Jerry Biberman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the implementation of two strategies that are actually un-teachable yet highly effective in higher education: meditation and storytelling. Design/methodology/approach – Specifically...

..., Chinese thought cannot (and should not) be summarized into a set of ready‐made advices and rules of conduct: its favorite channel of expression was storytelling and conversations, and stories are susceptible to receive a variety of interpretations that keep their ultimate meaning open...

...Adrian N. Carr; Cheryl Ann; Robert van Boeschoten Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of the technology on storytelling in an organisational setting. How do we tell each other stories in projects with digital images, and how can we convince others in this project about...

...Adrian N. Carr; Cheryl Ann; Adrian N. Carr; Cheryl Ann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the manner in which storytelling has become an increasingly common part of management development, and to highlight some of the use and abuse of storytelling as a management development tool...

.... In turn, these relationships create leadership development opportunities. The authors also explain why some people need to listen to the whole story before they can draw conclusions about its parts, about why some people do not care about others', stories and about why some storytellers do...

...Adrian N. Carr; Cheryl Ann; Mervyn Conroy Purpose The aim of this paper is to show how storytelling and MacIntyre's virtue ethics theoretical schema can inform a new approach to management development and coaching. It also highlights the potentially collusive nature of a coaching relationship...

... is informed by a social constructionist view of coaching. Findings The conceptualisation of the coaching process as a series of storyselling activities highlights the power of storytelling to facilitate management development through coaching on the one hand and the potential for manipulation and abuse...

... be settled or negotiated. Thus story‐making as a reflective act moves between enhancing reflection and preparing for action. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Narratives Storytelling Management consultancy Management development In the management literature we have seen...