I was going to include a chapter on Leadership in the book, but realised I did not have enough material, or enough ideas, yet. So this blogpost is very much a starting point. As ever, I welcome comment and discussion. There has been a lot written about the stories leaders tell to galvanise the troops (See for example, Bob McKee ‘Storytelling that Moves People,’ HBR June 2003; Stephen Denning, ‘Telling Tales’, HBR May 2004, and ‘The Leaders’ Guide to Storytelling,’ 2005). I

The work on leadership by Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee (see The New Leaders) is interesting in the context of a ManyStory approach. Using their framework of Emotional Intelligence they identify 6 leadership styles. Four are positive, and two are very risky. In my analysis, the positive ones work well because they engage with the stories of those being led - and the risky ones are risky precisely because they don’t. So how does that work? The most strongly positive, in terms o