Antenarrative Theory
antenarrative.com
Antenarrative names the living, unfinished material that circulates before a retrospective narrative turns it into a settled beginning, middle, and end. This site introduces the Seven B-processes—Before, Beneath, Bets, Being, Becoming, Between, and Beyond—and their roots in Bakhtin’s philosophy of answerable action. It is the best starting place for a Wednesday Lab participant who wants to understand why fragments, hunches, and competing future bets are not “bad stories,” but essential evidence of organizational becoming. The site also connects the framework to AI industry analysis, true storytelling, and the ethical question of who must answer for the stories a technology makes possible.
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Tamaraland
tamaraland.us
Tamaraland is a way of studying organizations as multiple rooms, each with a partial view, rather than as one coherent system observed from above. It invites readers to walk through the rooms of power, finance, technology, community, ecology, and everyday work, asking what becomes visible in one room and what is hidden in another. For the Wednesday Lab, Tamaraland helps make AI and organization development concrete: a confident corporate announcement can look very different from the data-center community, employee, or ecosystem room. Visit this site to explore a practice of plural, situated inquiry that resists quick closure and keeps responsibility in view.
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The Luddite Consultant in the AI Revolution
davidboje.com/luddite
This book project asks what ethical consulting can be when artificial intelligence is rapidly changing client work, labor, surveillance, and organizational decision making. “Luddite” here does not mean refusing technology; it means refusing to surrender professional judgment, story, and human answerability to the technology’s promotional script. The site brings together the book, teaching materials, composite consultant characters, and practical questions for external and internal consultants. Wednesday Lab participants can use it to connect conceptual discussion to the lived dilemmas of consulting: when to challenge a client’s AI plan, how to notice hidden costs, and how to preserve people’s capacity to tell and revise their own stories.
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Dark Sides of Leadership in the AI Era
davidboje.com/darkside
The Dark Sides project examines how leadership claims around AI can conceal harms, evade responsibility, or transfer costs to workers, communities, and ecosystems. It develops the Ghost Vortex, Bakhtin’s non-alibi in Being, SEAM hidden-cost analysis, and the Tesseract framework as ways to inquire beneath reassuring language about safety, innovation, and progress. The page is a bridge to the Routledge monograph in progress and to related research protocols. In a Wednesday Lab, it can frame a more demanding question than “Is this leader ethical?”: whose stories, labor, water, future, and voice are absent from the leadership story—and who is answerable for that absence?
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Conversational Storytelling Interviewing (CSI)
davidboje.com/csi
CSI is a qualitative research and practice approach that treats an interview as a living conversation rather than a device for extracting a finished account. It is designed for researchers, doctoral students, and practitioners who want to hear fragmented, relational, embodied, and unfolding stories without forcing them too early into themes or categories. The site introduces the approach, its ethical commitments, and its uses in dissertation and organization studies. It belongs in the Wednesday Lab because every Lab conversation can be practiced as CSI: listen for the story still forming, invite a counter-story, and remain answerable for how questions and interpretations change the conversation.
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AI Bets on Your Future
davidboje.com/aibets
AI Bets on Your Future focuses on the wagers being placed by corporations, governments, consultants, and users as AI systems are built and adopted. The central question is not simply what an algorithm can do today, but whose future it is betting with, who bears the downside, and who has a voice before decisions become irreversible. The site supports Wednesday Lab work on true storytelling, Tamaraland, and future-oriented inquiry. It offers a useful entry point for participants who want to bring an AI proposal, policy, or workplace concern into the room and examine its hidden assumptions, promised benefits, excluded stakeholders, and practical alternatives.
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Together Storying — Ghost Vortex
davidboje.com/togetherstorying/
Together Storying gathers work on the Ghost Vortex: the inherited and often unseen layers of values, training data, policies, institutional interests, and leadership choices carried by an AI system. The concept uses the image of a palimpsest: earlier inscriptions are scraped over but continue to shape what can be written and read. It also draws on Plato’s Cave, asking how people interpret technological shadows without seeing the full machinery that produces them. This is a central Wednesday Lab doorway for participants examining AI leadership, alignment, consent, and accountability. It encourages collective inquiry into the stories that are already embedded before any user begins a conversation with a system.
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World Scientific Encyclopedia — Series 3
davidboje.com/ws
Business Storytelling in the Age of AI is the World Scientific Encyclopedia series convening authors, editors, and participants around emerging work on organizational storytelling, technology, ecology, inclusion, strategy, and answerability. The Wednesday Lab sessions are the working commons for this project: a place to hear proposals, develop chapters, make connections, and shape the Series 3 volumes before they are finalized. Visit the series page for working proposals, session context, and ways to propose a volume or chapter. This is the home base for participants who want to move from attending a Lab to contributing a substantive scholarly or practice-oriented piece.
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Togther Storying — supplied alternate spelling
davidboje.com/togtherstorying
This card preserves the second spelling supplied for the Together Storying address so it can be checked rather than silently discarded. Its intended subject appears to be the same broad field of collective storytelling, Ghost Vortex inquiry, and the relation between organizational stories and technological systems. Before making this address a permanent public button, open it once and confirm whether it is a separate project, a redirect, or a typographical variant of Together Storying. The Wednesday Lab value is practical: web directories should not erase ambiguous paths, but they should name ambiguity and invite a responsible correction. Once verified, one of these two cards can be removed and the other retained as the canonical route.
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Enthinkment Circle
enthinkment.com
Enthinkment Circle develops “thinking with the heart”: an approach to organization, ethics, and inquiry associated with Louis R. Pondy and developed further by David Boje and colleagues. It resists the split between detached analysis and lived concern, asking how thought can remain responsive to relationships, vulnerability, imagination, and action. The site offers an inviting entry point for Wednesday Lab participants interested in philosophical depth without abandoning practice. It is especially relevant when conversations turn to moral answerability, care, leadership, and the temptation to treat people as data. Enthinkment asks us to think from inside the consequences of our actions, not merely about them from a safe distance.
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Quantum Storytelling
quantumstorytelling.org
Quantum Storytelling explores organizational life as a field of many possible futures rather than one predictable sequence of causes and effects. It connects story, relationality, ethics, care, and complexity, using quantum ideas as a philosophical resource rather than a fashionable metaphor. Visitors will find work on how futures emerge through choices, conversations, material conditions, and the stories people enact together. In the Wednesday Lab, Quantum Storytelling is useful for moving beyond the question “What will AI do?” toward “Which futures are being made possible, for whom, and through what relationships?” It helps sustain attentiveness to uncertainty while refusing fatalism or technological determinism.
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Horse Sense at Work
horsesenseatwork.com
Horse Sense at Work brings embodied, relational learning into leadership and organization development. Horses make visible patterns of attention, trust, boundaries, power, presence, and coordination that participants may not recognize in purely verbal workshops. The site represents a practical companion to living story and true storytelling: people learn not only by explaining experience afterward, but by noticing how a shared situation unfolds in the present. Wednesday Lab participants interested in facilitation, OD, coaching, or ecological relationality can use this doorway to consider how human–more-than-human encounters change the way we listen, lead, and take responsibility in organizations.
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Perview / Growth OD
perview.org
Perview is included as a doorway to David Boje’s work on growth-oriented organization development and the often hidden assumptions, emotional costs, and story dynamics beneath conventional change programs. It is relevant to anyone in the Wednesday Lab who wants to translate storytelling theory into a process of organizational intervention. The emphasis is not on imposing a neat change narrative from above, but on working with the many voices, relations, histories, and material conditions that shape whether change can live. Use this site as a bridge between conceptual discussion and OD practice: diagnosis, participation, hidden costs, sustainability, and the care needed for change that does not simply reproduce the problem it claims to solve.
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Actor-Network Theory
davidboje.com/ant/
The Actor-Network Theory page provides a route into studying how people, technologies, texts, rules, algorithms, animals, infrastructures, and other actants become entangled in organizational action. Its importance for the Wednesday Lab is immediate: an AI decision is never made by an AI alone, nor by one human leader. It moves through training data, interfaces, contracts, servers, policies, workers, users, and ecological resources. This perspective supports Ghost Vortex analysis by making absent or backgrounded actants visible. Visitors can use it to reframe a simple “technology impact” question as a network question: what relations are being assembled, who or what has agency, and where are responsibility and power distributed?
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Blacksmith — Art and Sculpture
davidboje.com/blacksmith/
The Blacksmith page presents art and sculpture as another way of thinking with material, place, memory, and transformation. It reminds visitors that David Boje’s work is not only textual or conceptual: making, repairing, shaping, and encountering crafted objects can also be a form of storying. In the Wednesday Lab context, this matters because AI-era questions are often treated as abstract debates. Art restores attention to embodiment, texture, labor, beauty, and the consequences of material practice. Visit this page to encounter a more aesthetic side of the work and to consider how sculpture may express what a conventional academic argument leaves unsaid.
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Living Story
davidboje.com/livingstory
Living Story centers the idea that organizations and lives are not finished narratives waiting to be reported, but ongoing events enacted through bodies, relationships, places, artifacts, and time. It is closely related to antenarrative, yet it foregrounds the here-and-now movement of story before it becomes an official account. For Wednesday Lab participants, the site is a useful reminder to notice what is happening in the room, not only what has already been concluded. It supports conversation, coaching, research, and leadership practices that remain open to surprise, complexity, and the ethical claim of people whose stories do not fit a dominant plot.
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Restorying
davidboje.com/restorying/index.html
Restorying is the practice of revising harmful, limiting, or overly settled stories so that different possibilities for action can emerge. It does not mean replacing one official story with another polished slogan. Instead, it invites people to notice dominant plots, recover suppressed voices, and experiment with more answerable ways of relating. This makes it highly relevant to AI, leadership, organizational change, and personal practice. In a Wednesday Lab, restorying can become a shared method: identify the story that is closing down possibility, ask whose interests it serves, and work with the fragments and counter-stories that can reopen the future.
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True Storytelling
davidboje.com/truestorytelling/
True Storytelling is an ethical change-management approach developed with colleagues Jens Larsen and Lena Bruun. It offers seven principles—truth, making room, plot, timing, helping stories along, staging, and reflecting—for working responsibly with stories in organizations and everyday life. The site includes learning pathways, materials, and connections to the Enthinkment Circle and antenarrative practice. For the Wednesday Lab, True Storytelling offers a practical discipline for discussion: listen before telling, create room for stories already present, consider timing and setting, and reflect on the value a story creates. It is a useful complement to the critical concepts on this hub because it turns answerability into repeatable practice.
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Vu Jà Dé
davidboje.com/vujade
Vu Jà Dé is a playful but serious invitation to see familiar situations anew—to encounter what has become routine as if it might still surprise us. It helps interrupt the automatic repetition of managerial habits, academic categories, and technological promises. For Wednesday Lab participants, the page can function as a creative reset: when an AI story, leadership claim, or organizational diagnosis seems obvious, pause and ask what has been made invisible by familiarity. This spirit belongs with antenarrative and living story because both resist finality. A new look can make room for a different question, a neglected participant, or a future that the conventional story has already ruled out.
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Curriculum Vitae
davidboje.com/vita
The Vita page documents David Michael Boje’s scholarly and professional record: publications, books, collaborations, research fields, teaching, and the long development of the ideas gathered across this hub. It is a useful reference for prospective collaborators, students, editors, conference organizers, and visitors who want to place a particular concept or project in its wider trajectory. For Wednesday Lab participants, it offers the background needed to move from a current discussion to related work across organizational storytelling, narrative methods, complexity, ethics, and organization development. Visit the Vita when you need a formal academic reference point or wish to trace the longer history behind a current working paper or Lab conversation.
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WCU
davidboje.com/wcu/index.htm
The WCU page is a legacy doorway in the wider DavidBoje.com archive. It belongs here because the Wednesday Lab is not only about new AI-era projects; it also connects to a long record of teaching, organization development, storytelling scholarship, and collaborative experimentation. Visitors should approach this page as an archive entry: a place where earlier work may supply concepts, cases, materials, or relationships that illuminate current concerns. The value of keeping such links visible is antenarrative in spirit. The past is not simply closed; its fragments continue to participate in present choices and future bets. Explore the page to see what earlier story threads can be carried forward responsibly.
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Water
davidboje.com/water/index.htm
The Water page brings ecological concern into the center of organizational and technological storytelling. Water is not background scenery for AI infrastructure, consulting, or growth; it is a living condition of communities, land, animals, and future generations. This archive doorway is especially relevant to Wednesday Lab discussions of data centers, energy, sustainability, and answerability. It encourages participants to ask a material question beneath every optimistic technology story: where do the water, energy, land, labor, and waste go? The page offers a way to connect personal, regional, and ecological concerns to the broader methods of antenarrative, Tamaraland, and SEAM hidden-cost inquiry.
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