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Hero's Journey Organizational Mapping™
The monomyth used as a diagnostic for an organisation in the middle of a change it has not named.
2 chapters · 28,218 words · Still being written
Companies in transformation are almost always somewhere in a story they have not admitted they are in: the refusal of the call, the road of trials, the belly of the whale that the quarterly update describes as a challenging period. Naming the position does real work, because each stage has a characteristic error and a characteristic thing that would help.
The volume is careful about the limits of the frame — the hero's journey flatters leadership, and this material is explicit that in an organisation the hero is usually a collective and sometimes nobody at all.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.