David M Boje
David M. Boje in 2019 started working as professor at Aalborg's Business College and adjunct professor at Cabrini University in Philadelphia. He also become editor-in-chief of the Business Storytelling Encyclopedia. In 2018, Boje gave over a dozen invited presentations on storytelling and the global climate crisis, in cities spanning 3 continents and 8 countries. He became Professor Emeritus at New Mexico State University January 2019. David Boje has accepted to be a member of the editorial board of the The Systemic Change Journal that is an ongoing conversation about ways of Governing the Anthropocene, and helping to set up a Sustainability Storytelling Lab at the European School of Governance (EUSG) where Louis Klein is dean. David is what Foucault calls a 'specific intellectual' and he is an international scholar confronting the 'regimes of truth' with his own storytelling paradigm. He created the field of “antenarrative” research. David was Editor of the Journal of Organizational Change Management for 14 years, and founder and editor of Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry for 10 years. He was Co-Founder and Board Chair for the entire 25-year life span of the Standing Conference for Management and Organization Inquiry. He was past chair of the Academy of Management Research Methods division, winner of the New Mexico State University Distinguished Career Award, and currently holds NMSU’s highest rank as Regents Professor. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is considered the “godfather” of their Material Storytelling Lab. The Military Family storytelling lab work continues in New Mexico to develop embodied restorying sandtray and equine assisted restorying as evidence-based protocol. He is working with https://truestorytelling.org on sustainability storytelling, and convenes the annual 'Quantum Storytelling Conference' each December in Las Cruces New Mexico with Emeritus Professor Grace Ann Rosile (https://davidboje.com/quantum).
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The paradigm shift to quantum physics will mean new approaches to change management and storytelling. Because what we thought we knew about space, time, and matter has changed our storytelling of the history, present, and future will be different. My purpose is to reflect on the way changes in what I call the „quantum physics of storytelling‟ prompt important changes in the practices of change management. Antenarrative is a genre of storytelling the future that is an intra-weave‟ with retrospective narrative of many pasts, and living stories of the more
immediate Now-presentness of webs of relationality. One key change to change management is two new theories of antenarrative. Initially antenarrative was defined in 2001 in only two [ontic] ways: the ante (bet) the transformation of the future, and the ante (before) to its fossilization in
narrative retrospection coheres. These seem to connect narrative-past to predicted future-endstates.
In this reflection, I submit quantum physics, because everything from living beings to living things is entangled at the subatomic particle/wave indeterminacy, this quantum-field-ness
necessitates two new [ontological] theories: ante (anteriority) the primordial-future [in-being] ahead of itself beckoning the present, and ante (antecedent) the predicate (or a priori) Being-of -possibilities of authentic care, a calling to Now-ness potentialities.
Key Words: Storytelling, antenarrative, ontological-anteriority, change management, quantum physics
(dysfunction) there is a human Subject and a Predicate of hidden costs that can become transmuted into a positive human potential and an organization value-added. I will declare that SEAM’s unity of Subject and Predicate emerges in a harmony of negative and positive, the has Substance and is thoroughly scientific and quintessentially Hegelian in its dialectic change management, not Kantian, not Marxian, nor some other sort of dialectical approach. I conclude with implications for Hegelian treatment of Spirit as Reason worked out in entanglement of Subject and Substance for ‘quantum dialectical storytelling.’ Žižek’s recent Hegelian treatise has raised significantly problematizes of Barad’s approach to quantum intra-activity of material and discourse for not being dialectical.
Proceeding paper INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ‘ON ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE’ 9-10 June, 2016 Lyon, France ; Organized in partnership with the ISEOR Research Center (Magellan, IAE Lyon, University of Jean Moulin); The “Organization Development and Change” Division and the “Management Consulting” Division of the Academy of Management (USA)