Abstract
Psychology, managerial theory, neuroscience, and narrative philosophy can be integrated to offer a more effective understanding and pursuit of human flourishing. The aforementioned disciplines offer appreciation for the relationship between one’s life story and its temporal components in the pursuit of strategic corporate goals. Making explicit the corporate story facilitates achieving both personal and corporate accomplishment. Aristotelian ethics, mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral techniques of ACT can complement one another for increasing human well-being, both individual and corporate.
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From a theological perspective, it is crucial to note that the story is first in God, from all eternity, the story lived, the story that we could have lived, and the story that we should have lived.
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The work explains the development of the philosophical foundations for narrative ethics.
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Although Conley attributes the quotation to Einstein, he may never have made the statement. The first earliest attributable use of the phrase is probably that of Cameron.
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Gahl, R.A. (2018). Time, Story, Corporate Self-Understanding, and Personal Accomplishment. In: Mercado, J. (eds) Personal Flourishing in Organizations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57702-9_3
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