Hans Hansen is associate professor of management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he is also the director of the Center for Innovative Organizations, and an Embrey Human Rights Fellow at Southern Methodist University. He is coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. No Place to Hide2. Talking Narratives3. How the Change Model Emerged4. Applying the Model5. The Narrative Stranglehold6. Enacting New Narratives7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction8. Narratives as a Way to Organize9. A Narrative for You10. Big Ideas and Narrative ModesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

This is a smart and eminently readable treatment of a novel approach to social, organizational, and personal change through the analysis and alteration of embedded—and often unrecognized—cultural narratives. Practical applications of Hans Hansen’s thoughtful approach to narrative change are provided throughout the book highlighted by an impressive, first-hand account of how a small team of social justice advocates was able to change the way the death penalty operates in Texas. The writing is lively and enthusiastic, and carries readers along a storyline that rests on solid scholarship and considerable social science research. A must-read for those interested in the role our narratives play in maintaining or transforming the status quo.

Hans Hansen is associate professor of management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he is also the director of the Center for Innovative Organizations, and an Embrey Human Rights Fellow at Southern Methodist University. He is coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. No Place to Hide2. Talking Narratives3. How the Change Model Emerged4. Applying the Model5. The Narrative Stranglehold6. Enacting New Narratives7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction8. Narratives as a Way to Organize9. A Narrative for You10. Big Ideas and Narrative ModesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

This is a smart and eminently readable treatment of a novel approach to social, organizational, and personal change through the analysis and alteration of embedded—and often unrecognized—cultural narratives. Practical applications of Hans Hansen’s thoughtful approach to narrative change are provided throughout the book highlighted by an impressive, first-hand account of how a small team of social justice advocates was able to change the way the death penalty operates in Texas. The writing is lively and enthusiastic, and carries readers along a storyline that rests on solid scholarship and considerable social science research. A must-read for those interested in the role our narratives play in maintaining or transforming the status quo.

Hans Hansen is associate professor of management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, where he is also the director of the Center for Innovative Organizations, and an Embrey Human Rights Fellow at Southern Methodist University. He is coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization (2008).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. No Place to Hide2. Talking Narratives3. How the Change Model Emerged4. Applying the Model5. The Narrative Stranglehold6. Enacting New Narratives7. Narrative Selection Versus Narrative Construction8. Narratives as a Way to Organize9. A Narrative for You10. Big Ideas and Narrative ModesConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

This is a smart and eminently readable treatment of a novel approach to social, organizational, and personal change through the analysis and alteration of embedded—and often unrecognized—cultural narratives. Practical applications of Hans Hansen’s thoughtful approach to narrative change are provided throughout the book highlighted by an impressive, first-hand account of how a small team of social justice advocates was able to change the way the death penalty operates in Texas. The writing is lively and enthusiastic, and carries readers along a storyline that rests on solid scholarship and considerable social science research. A must-read for those interested in the role our narratives play in maintaining or transforming the status quo.