Contents

1. Introduction

2. Managerial Work

3. Organizational Storytelling

4. Reports, Opinions and Proto-stories

5. Putting Stories to Work

6. Concluding Comments.

Bibliography

Index

David Collins is Professor in Management and Dean of the Suffolk Business School, University of Suffolk (UK). A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Essex, David is British by birth and Scottish by the Grace of God. This is his fourth book published by Routledge.

Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers do. Indeed it argues that, for managers, 'walking the walk' necessarily implies 'talking the talk such that storytelling is now central to managerial work'