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Hero’s Journey: Imbuing Projects and Processes with Life

In: Narrative Organizations

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  • Christine Erlach

    (NARRATA Consult)

  • Michael Müller

    (Stuttgart Media University)

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The hero’s journey is a narrative method that makes projects and strategic processes more alive and tangible by superimposing a story on the procedures. Thanks to movies like Star Wars, the archetypal structure of the hero’s journey is widely known and easily accessible to many first-time users. Even though it has many successive stages in its original form, organizations can usually reduce them to the following five stations: (1) The heroes hear the call to adventure; (2) they commence their journey into the unknown where (3) they are met with many challenges, but (4) eventually they prevail and obtain a treasure before (5) they need to find a way to return to their home world. Its similarities with projects and the potential of these stations to provide a blueprint for planning upcoming strategic processes turn the hero’s journey into a narrative method with a wide range of possible applications.

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  • Christine Erlach & Michael Müller, 2020. "Hero’s Journey: Imbuing Projects and Processes with Life," Management for Professionals, in: Narrative Organizations, edition 1, pages 153-161, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-662-61421-1_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-61421-1_16
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