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David M. Boje: A Storyteller for the Post-Newtonian Era

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Boje, David M. holds a Wells Fargo Professorship and is a distinguished professor and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow in the management department at New Mexico State University. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University. His specialty is organizational storytelling using qualitative methods ranging from traditional narrative to living story emergence, to new work utilizing Shifts-Patterns-Uniqueness-Discrepancies-Self-Assumptions in doing the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association field note methods. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in storytelling, including antenarrative and quantum storytelling theory, as well as his key role in the creation of multiple organizations fostering postmodern, critical, and spiritually informed approaches to scholarly dialogue. Each phase of Boje’s four-decade career (so far) has served to more firmly situate him, and the field of organization development as a whole, on the path toward more inclusive and ontologically sound ways of knowing, Being, and influencing the world.

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  • To suggest that a student “read Boje,” is to offer up a lifetime of possibilities, for his books, articles, chapters, films and speeches are extensive, and he tends to create new material faster than the most avid reader can digest it. To that end, here we recommend an article considered to be a major turning point in his career, the author’s all-time favorite, and two of Boje’s personal favorite“Boje books” as an entrée to understanding some key elements of the work.

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Henderson, T.L. (2016). David M. Boje: A Storyteller for the Post-Newtonian Era. In: Szabla, D., Pasmore, W., Barnes, M., Gipson, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49820-1_67-1

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