Sagas and Plots

Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas” ; that is, the stories people in organizations (in this case, universities and colleges) tell themselves about the organization they belong to and the way these stories turn into a kind of shared history.  Knowing these stories is a way of understanding not just how members of a community understand their shared history, it’s also a guide to the way they understand success. More...