Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations - The Narrative Lens and Organizational Change

REWRITING DESTINIES

In Loehr's The Power of Story, he suggests that leaders may face a time when they must rewrite their destinies. He asserts that because leaders' destinies follow their stories, it's imperative that they do everything in their power to get their stories right. He says leaders may have to consider editing a dysfunctional story and asking themselves the question, “In which important areas of my life is it clear that I cannot achieve my goals with the story I've got?”

“That's it,” we thought. Our experience in San Diego, which was being played out similarly in corporate boardrooms across the country, was being described by Loehr. Although Loehr is discussing something that occurs at an individual level—rewriting personal stories—leaders ...