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What's Next for Narratives? A Prospective Look Theoretically, Methodologically, and Pragmatically (session 776)

Stories and narratives are more than Spotlights. In the stories and narratives are the myth-making that subverts dialogue in these United States.

We live in Gunfighter Nation

What's Next for Narrative in Gunfighter Nation
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15 minutes into this Council Chambers, planning and zoning meeting on July 27 2021, I tell stories about Gunfighter Nation

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What is antenarrative?  https://antenarrative.com

 

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AOM 2018

Tittle: How Consultation Can Save Humanity From the Sixth Extinction Event

SLIDES FOR THE PDW on Teaching SEAM Consulting for Small Business, Saturday August 11 2018, AOM

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SLIDES FOR THE PRESENTATION to MC Division, Monday August 13 2018, AOM

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ENSEMBLE STORYTELLING MULTIPLICITIES BECAUSE

Abstract

The university, government, corporations, and small businesses are ‘multiplicities’ that are becoming digitalized organizations and they are virtualizing in their narrative sensemaking. There are several kinds of multiplicities that constitute 'ensemble storytelling multiplicities' in ways that could save humanity from the 6th Extinction.' There is No Planet B. I will introduce these multiplicities shortly, but first a challenge. We will need to radically change our ways of managing and consulting, from centralized command and control models rooted in Taylor's factory planning departments, Fayol's administrative principles, and Weberianism turned bureaupathology --- into what we are calling 'Ensemble Storytelling Multiplicities.' This contagion of Taylorism-Fayolism-Weberism is called by Henri Savall and colleauges, the TFW virus. The TFW virus is so pervasive in managing, organizing, and consulting, it is bringing about the 6th Extinction. It is unfolding now, most scientists agree it will mean the death of most of humanity. Ten giant consultancy firms used Enterprise Resource Software (ERP) and spread the TFW virsu that is preventing any Actual/Real attempts to save humankind from 6th Extinction. Several narrative illusions cover over three important multiplicities that dominate 'Ensemble-Storytelling' preventing any 'true storytelling' of our existential situation. Several philosophers have theorized their own version of multiplicities and ensembles. Henri Bergson inspired Jean Paul Sartre and Gilles Deleuze to to work on the multiplicity problematic. And our own Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet are working with socioeconomic multiplicities. Sartre, Deleuze, and Savall have notions of a surface organization and a deeper, hidden aspect of the relation of interiority field to exteriority field and how this plays out in praxis, what Grace Ann Rosile and I call the 'ensemble storytelling paradigm' of reflexive experiencing of several multiplicities.

Its not centralized hierarchy, not a whole totalizing, but rather its an Ensemble Storytelling of three diverse entangled multiplicities:

What is Ensemble Storytelling of Multiplicities?

Ensemble Storytelling, for me, is the interplay of living story webs, narrative-counternarrative dialectics, and constituting them both out of antenarrative processes. I began working on antenarrative processes in the 2001 Narrative Methods book, and developed it further in the last decade in the 5 B's. In 2001 there were just the 'before'-narrative (& story) and the 'bets' (on the future). In the last decade I have worked with colleagues to sort out 5 B-concepts, as shown in this figure and this 95-second YouTube.

Figure 1: The Three Components of the Entirety of Storytelling (Living Story Webs, Antenarrative Processes, & Narrative-Counternarrative Dialectic)[Boje, 2018a, b].

As an ensemble storytelling professor, I will introduce four critiques of narrative illusions:

Narrative projects virtual imaginaries through the actual practical objects (“machines, tools, consumer goods, etc.”) — “our present action makes them seem like totalities by resuscitating, in some way, the praxis which attempted to totalize their inertia” (Sartre, 1986: 45). In other words, as William James (1907: 98) says, “things tell a story.” The university socialmateriality also tells a story. Its a story of computer things, digital technologies displacing academic workers.

There is a difference and an interplay between 'Indigenous Ways of Knowing' (IWOK) living story webs (Rosile, 2016;Humphries, 2016; Grayshield, 2016; Pepion, 2016; TwoTrees, Sullivan, & Kolan, 2016; Boje, 2016d), and the kinds of 'Western Ways of Knowing (WWOK) narratives-counternarratives. WWOK tends to like its narrative-counternarrative rich in coherence, by selecting very few events to emplot in a more linear beginning-middle-end fashion. IWOK living story webs are terse, relying more on the community of storytellers to fill in the blanks with context knowledge, so that storytelling is a pedagogic way for the elders to teach the young what Gregory Cajete (2000) calls 'Native Science.'

For me, there is something deeper going on than fashioning narratives and stories, and the ways WWOK trivializes IWOK. I have been working out the antenarrative process notions in the work of many authors, some of whom are shown in the summary figure above. For example, Walter Benjamin's (1928) book, One-Way Street, for me, is the first primary treatment of what I mean by antenarrative. He is in Germany following WWI, trying to sort out a foresight into the future of modernity. He does this by being a flaneur (stroller) through the city, and notebooking some 60 signals, signs, and intuitive insights. These have no particular theme or plot. Yet, together they are a kind of foresight, and what is called 'prospective sensemaking.'

Figure 2: Relation of WWOK and IWOK to Corporate Social Resonsiblity and Hidden Costs of 6th Extinction (See Boje Italy Presentations).

I understand the consulting practices as storytelling. Next, I want to look back at history and see what kinds of discourses have become prominent in the consulting practices of the ten giant consultancies. With the Industrial Revolution, Taylor's 'scientific management' of the factory involed central planning of worker's jobs by a few experts with stop watches. The administrative system adopted Fayol's scalar and span of control principles. And bureaucracy everywhere bought into Weberian principles. Taylorism-Fayolism-Weberianism (TFW) became a contagion, if you will, a TFW virus (Worley, Zardet, Bonnet, & Savall, 2015; Savall, 2016; Boje, 2018a, b in press). The TFW virus became a contagion in most every large corporation, university, and government bureau.

There was a counter-narrative, by Mary Parker Follett (1941) who is the 'mother' of systems theory, though most forget about her work before WWII, and assign the origins to von Bertalanffy. Follett had a much different approach to 'scientific management' than Taylor, and took a broader 'orgnization-and-environment' approach than either Taylor or Fayol. She also wanted something more democratic than the simple hierarchy, command and control model of Weberian bureaucracy. For example, Follett, did consulting to corporations, by mediating the conflicts between management and labor unions. She did this by focusing on a scientific approach, in which participants studied the 'Situation' at hand. They did 'co-inquiry' into the Situation. She focused on her understanding of Hegelian dialectic (which it is important to note is not Hegel's main dialectic). Follett did conflict management by working through the differences between conflicting party, by sorting through their differences. She had aspirations for management to become a scientific discipline, which was much more than just centralized planning (i.e. Taylorism). In the late 70s and 80s, process consulting became all the rage, and business process reengineering took root in the giant consulting firms, and is still a primary focus to this day.

Here is what is important. The ten giants of consultancy have the ears and attention of the Fortune 500 corporations, many universities, and governments around the world.Together they are responsible for $65.6 billion in revenue, and control most of the consulting market. This is an important observation, since the Academy of Management researchers pay they little or no attention at all, and the kinds of consulting focused on in Organizational Development and Change (ODC) and the Management Consulting (MC) divisions have quite different theories, methods, and practices.

Table 1: 10 Giant Consultancy Firms, their Revenue, Market, use of ERP, and TFW Virus

 

The giant consultancies, often, do not recruit their young trainees from the B schools. And those recruits are put through in-house training in what we are calling the TFW virus and how to spread this contagion far and wide. I believe it is possible for the MC and ODC divisions to teach the 10 giant consulting firms a new approach to consultation. Consultation can take a quantum leap forward by moving from a 'humancentric’ praxis to one that is posthumanist. Posthumanist is defined as consulting for all species, rather than privileging only humanity. Each is a way of storytelling the collision course of humanity with planetary boundaries (no more clean water, breathable air, living soil, or enough biodiversity to support not only human life, but posthumanism (all life). There is an emergence of socioeconomic action that is in relation to alleviating the suffering of others, and the current 6th extinction that is now happening. 

For example, at McKinsey went to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MnSCU). Chancellor Steven Rosenstone hasn’t revealed what McKinsey & Co. produced for its $2 million contract:

"MnSCU also released materials McKinsey produced to help the system launch an overhaul earlier this year. MnSCU officials say the company worked hard and provided guidance, not prescriptions, for a campus-driven process. But faculty and others say they remain troubled. The work took place away from public scrutiny, which, they say, makes it harder to size up its value. It didn’t help that MnSCU recently provided a McKinsey proposal for the project that was almost entirely redacted… McKinsey also helped pen a “change story”: an open letter to faculty, staff and students urging them to be bold in tackling changes and promising transparency. It created an engagement plan and provided training to administrators"

McKinsey did similar consultation at Columbia University and University of North Carolina (IBID.):
“…Columbia University faculty members criticized an unpublicized $1.1 million McKinsey report that had recommended some graduate tuition increases. At the University of North Carolina System, a $2.6 million McKinsey report on eliminating academic program duplication was not discussed by the governing board or a strategic planning committee, according to media reports.”

            What these projects (Deloitte at Kansas State University and NMSU, McKinsey at Minnesota State Colleges, Columbia University, and University of North Carolina reveals a disturbing corporate consultancy approach that includes lack of transparency, circumvention of faculty governance, and a quick fix approach to downsizing and business process reengineering. My point is that is very little about this consulting that one would recognize in the MC and ODC division presentations at AOM. It is certainly far afield from the SEAM approach, which would do a lot less harm than the cut-and-paste PowerPoint and Xcel spread sheet reports.

 

With ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) it became possible to centralize and automate the planning function, to assign scenariors of work performance, adjusted according the inputs to the software, and managed by ontology coding.

Figure 3: Brief History of Four Consulting Practice Wave of Ten Giants of Consultancy

“At all events, it is clear that the negation of a negation produces an indeterminate ensemble unless it is regarded as arising within a totality” (Sartre, 1968: 90). Even in the totality of the TFW virus of Savallians, the arising of a totality of the negation of the negation, is a starting point for a positive dialectic, an affirmation of human potential by DPIE’s that counter the instrumental field, moving to democratic ensembles of negotiated contracts, as counterforce to the totalizing TFW virus. This is a change of praxis of human labor, its working condition, work organization, 3C’s, time management, training integration, and strategic implementation —> all the while rooting out dysfunctions of the inertia of the TFW virus, and its hidden costs, and rhizomatic financial consequences. This is trilectical rather than dialectical in the Peircean abduction, induction, deduction triadic.

The TFW virus has become the dominant form of managing and organizing, and the 10 consultancy giants are not working to innoculate it. The TFW virus has become a fractal. A fractal is the "recurrence of self-similar and/or instability processes across scales: individual, unit, inter-unit, organizaiton, inter-organization, regional, international, global" (Boje, 2016). Fractals form in fractal narratives, fractal story webs, and are interconnected by transformative anatnarrative fractal processes. Henderson and Boje (2016) argue that multifractal management is awareness of the patterns, alignment of actions to change the pattern-processes, and something called ‘antenarrative’ links between fractal-narratives (e.g. monomyth with one mono-plot, one hero or one villain), and multifractal story (e.g. living story webs moving every which way). "Fractal storytelling is defined here, as the study of the relationship between many small events in living story webs, brought into antenarrative processes into interactivity with the grander narratives of quite few events" (http://davidboje.com/fractal).

Sartreans, Savallians, and Deleuzians disagree about the ‘negation of the negation.’ For Deleuzians the only ‘negation of the negation’ in Nature is the one that dialecticians put there. Nor is the opposition of contradictories the motive force of the dialectical process or some induced law of Reason. For Sartre the three laws of Hegel/Engels become intelligible from the standpoint of totalization. But for Deleuze its not about totalization, but a play of differences and repetitions that does not totalize. Sartre treats negation of the negation as an an affirmation within the very movement of totalization of dialectical Reason, and as a correlative of praxis (Sartre, 1968: 46)” “every determination is a negation, for praxis, in differentiating certain ensembles, excludes them form the group formed by all the others…”

“One of the ORM approaches is the ontology of Henri Savall, who does interplay of dialectical (called Trilectic) with a way of multiplicity (called Qualimetrics) in socioeconomic and sociomaterial methods, and that is enough introductions for now. Another combinatorial approach is called ‘true storytelling’ in work of Jens Larsen, Lena Bruun, and myself (2016) that builds on Kirkeby, on multiplicities, and Platonic dialectics. The testing of ‘true’ and ‘false’ storytelling is the task of scientific methods of [Ontological Research Methods] ORM” (Boje, 2018b, Ontological Research Methods: Storytelling in Action).

I follow Deleuze, Sartre, and Savall in order to rewrite the problems of storytelling and history at the level of scarcity.Each has a theory of the ensemble of multiplicity, and they are very different. Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein, each writing in the mid-1930s noted the growing scarcity of storytelling competency, the ability a convey experience mouth to mouth was getting displaced by conveying experience in writing, in textualizing experience. The problem is the writing and textualizing did not map much of the context and processes of the world. Storytelling for me, is part of the philosophy of history, with textualizing the orality becoming contradictory to the historical. Pure being (being-in-itself) is reshaped and reorganized by the negativity of textualizing (by being-for-itself), and thus the being os scarcity of the storyteller able to communicate their own or another’s experience to someone else.

Case Example: I will present the case agianst the negation of the professor, and a solution to it. TFW virus capitalism continues to globalize and to (re) create and negate the worker, and this contradiction for Sartre is materialized in machine replacements for craft-workers of great skill mastery, and it is still played out in digital displacements of workers, and in the digital displacement of skilled professors. Digital measures, for example, considers academic work as a complete abstraction, a virtual-real inverse to actual-real. For Sartre its the dialectical movement of negation of the negation that keeps totalizing processes to develop the cyborg human (in Haraway terms). For Deleuze its the movement of the play of differences in the ensemble of diverse multiplicities. For Savall, its a positive trilectic. In higher education as a Sartrean, I would focus on the direction of the academic capitalism movement, transforming every university into a business —> as the present practices of developing totalization. As a Savallian, I would focus on the totalizing movement of TFW virus. For the Sartrean, this means “determining the less differentiated ensembles” in universities, that is bound to eliminate the negation which set the ensembles in antagonism to each other: (Sartre, 1968: 47). As a Deleuzian, this is the patchwork ensemble of dynamic multiplicities in their play of differences that is rhizomatic, not totalizing ever. Our universities are coming undone after a fifty year assault (Newfield, 2011; 2016) by academic capitalism (Slaughter & Leslie, 1997). As the new chancellor at our university, Dan Arvizu, puts it:

“Essentially, we’re running it like a business," Arvizu said. "This is what you would do if you were in the private sector and running an organization through a set of outcomes. It’s challenging to do in academia, I get that … but we’re moving in that direction” (Chancellor Arvizu plans to manage NMSU 'like a business' Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-NewsPublished 3:14 p.m. MT July 28, 2018).

The movement of totalization called ‘academic capitalism’ (or ‘neoliberalism’ Ideas) establishes a dialectical Reason expression in the universities around the world to be run like a business. The framework of this university=business totalization is “the negation of the negations [that] becomes an affirmation” of socioeconomic Idea that the university is a 'risky' business (Boje, 2017c; Boje, Cai-Hillon, Mele, 2017; Boje & Cai-Hillon, 2017).

In higher education, around the world, the ensemble of multiplicities is reverting to its undifferentiated state of Being, to an inertia as the ensemble becomes disintegrated within a practical field of routines (acts & activities) that is integrating around a new kind of differentiated multiplicity. There is a double movement, the Ideal or ‘pure past’ trying to reclaim the ‘living present’ (in Deleuzian ontology). In Sartre’s notions, the university as academic freedom, as creative scholarship is being ‘totalized’, integrating as a ‘practical field’ in a process of being formed as the ‘totalizing’ activity of university-as-a-business, a new ‘totalizing activity’ that tightens ‘all the bonds’, making each ‘differentiated element’ both its immediate expression of change, and its ‘mediation’ in relation to inertia of academic laborers [that would be me] (Sartre, 1986: 46). We therefore need reflexive practice, in a Savall notion, to listen to and observe the ‘ecologies of routines’ ( Sele & Grand, 2016) and the sociomaterial relation between material actants, software actants, and the human actants of ‘intra-activity’ of materiality with discourse (using the agentive real notions of Karen Barad (2003, 2007).

Examples form the transformaiton of higher education can help understand these two theories of the ensembles of multiplicities, one by Sartre that is dialectic, the other by Deleuze which is the rhizomatic play of differences, and the phenomenon of difference and repetition in routines. Both are doing their own interpretations and extensions of Henri Bergson’s notions of multiplicities and the relation of virtual and actual, and the relation of matter and memory. Here, my task is to extend these themes of Bergson, Sartre, and Deleuze to socioeconomic consulting that I teach and practice using Savall.I add an antenarrative theory understanding of Deleuzian ‘semiotic’ spiral systems of higher education. Specifically, risky double spiral-‘antenarratives’ are in play in schools of business, and public universities around the world. They are being deterritorialized and reterritorialized in academic reorganization schemes, including using business process reengineering to institute academic capitalism in so-called ‘knowledge economies’ under conditions of defunding by the State (Boje & Cai, 2017; Boje, 2017c). Double-spiralling antenarratives enact between localized living stories webs and long-lived organization-narratives (or petrified & formalized narratives & counternarratives) that mix in unanticipated ways that call forth monsters from the deep, out of the abyss of nothingness, of common sense and nonsense, becoming phantasms.

And it is a sociomateriality story of actual-real, but the narrative has virtual-real imaginaries shot through the actual-real things. The praxis which totalizes inertia (defined as a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged) in organizing institutions is an existential forces of crucial importance to Sartre. Why? Because of the dialectical contradiction between totalizing inertia that is regulative “principle of totalization” (“and all at once disintegrates into the inert ensemble of its professional creations” and opposes praxis of labor that made and uses this ensemble of sociomaterial creations (Sartre, 1986: 46).

This means the developing unification of habits (routines, & their repetitions) as processes and practices is not merely human labor of creative activity, but is also “the activity fo inhibiting it, reduced to items, it revers to the multiplicity of inertia” (Sartre, 1986: 46). In Henri Savall’s notions this means that the dysfunctions of routines (from working conditions to strategic implementation) become dialectically opposed to the functional creative activity of human potential, resulting in hidden costs and dire financial consequences. What we learn from Deleuze is this is rhizomatic positivity between interactivity’s of a patchwork ensembles of three kinds of multiplicity. But from Sartre we learn that it is a negativity, a negation of the negation kind of dialectic of the multiplicity of inertia and the multiplicities of the whole in the “mediation of its parts” that is in turn dialectic the “the multiplicity reverting to its original statute” … “a practical field of undifferentiated correlative of praxis, is the formal unity of the ensembles which are to be integrated” (Sartre, 1986: 46).

Capitalism continues to (re) create and negate the worker, and this contradiction for Sartre is materialized in machine replacements for craft-workers of great skill mastery, and it is still played out in digital displacements of workers, and in the digital displacement of skilled professors. This ensemble, its movement, for Sartre negates the academic skilled worker, “craftsmen thrown out of work” (Sartre, 1968: 210) in the new university=business model of academic capitalism. Not only the negation of the professor-worker, and their humanity.This is the “practical reinteriorization as the negation of the negation” by this new praxis of academic capitalism (Sartre, 1968: 362).

Sartre (1968: 545) This “praxis of organization, it shows that concrete organization is a perpetual negation of the negation” I observe and experience in the developing disorganization of the university, and its reorganization as business model. It is an “organizing apparatus” in “spatio-temporal ‘lag;”, the negating of skilled workforce, the displacement by digital work, that is collapsing, negating the scholarly university, and it is this new digital “apparatus which mediates” (IBID.).

My contribution is to apply Deleuzian sense to sensemaking, to theorize ‘double-spiral-antenarrative’ in relation to prospective sensemaking processes as phantasms arise from the depths to crack the surface of sense-nonsense. Double spiralling, back-and-forth, between future and past, presents organizational strategic shapes and pathways and rhizomatic movements of academic capitalism, riskier and more absurd nonsense, than ever before. As autoethnographer, I am complicit, and my own paranoia is an axis of both sense and nonsense I participate in: playing the publishing game in rank journals, doing outcome assessments for AACSB reaccreditation, and so forth, that I believe don’t help research or pedagogy (Boje, 2017c).

This changes the entire “correlative of praxis, every determination is the negation, for praxis, in differentiating certain ensembles, excludes them from the group formed by all the others’ and the developing unification areas simultaneously in the most differentiated produces (indicating the direction of the movement), in those which are less differentiated (indicating continuities, resistances, traditions, a tighter, but more superficial, unity), and in the conflict between the two (which expresses the present state of the developing totalization)”(Sartre, 1986: 46).

I work with these notions of Sele & Grand, Sartre, Deleuze, Bakhtin, Benjamin, and Savall in my own notions of storytelling praxis. There is, for me, an antagonism between the ‘pure past’ of a university that never was, and the living present, retotalizing of the university, in what Bakhtin (1993, writing in notebooks 1919-1921) calls the ‘once-occurrent event-ness of Being.’ These authors are each posing an ontological philosophical standpoint, each different from the other.

For Sartre “the dialectic is a totalizing activity” (Sartre, 1986: 47), but for Deleuze (1968/1994) the dialectic (the negation of the negation) is one of four kinds of illusions, in a slippage between what I call the storytelling paradigm: narrative, living story webs of relationship, and ‘antenarrative processes’ before/between/beneath/becoming/bets both narrative and story (Boje, 2001, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2018a, b).

For example, I did my graduate and doctoral studies at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urban in the mid to late 1970s, before the university became besieged by a new way of totalizing the university that ‘reinteriorizes’ its relations of ‘exteriority’ (Sartre, 1986: 47). Specifically the reining governor, then the State legislators, decided to downsize the University of Illinois budget, and its faculty and staff, while increasing the tuition, and student debt. This initiated a downward spiral known by critics of academic capitalism as ‘starving the beast’ (starve the budget, make working donations and work organization miserable, so many faculty and staff lead, the quantitative, qualitative, and financial indicators of performance outcomes decline, and the State can blame the faculty practices for the decline). This did not just happen to University of Illinois which was downsized by 20% (equivalent to losing the entire Champaign-Urbana campus), it also occurred in New Mexico. For example, where I work this last semester before I retire, the our department of management, at 17 faculty a few years ago, is not at 6, and when I leave, at 5. In the meantime the work load has increased for the surviving faculty and doctoral students, whose course enrollment and the number of courses taught keeps creeping up. At the some time we are expected to produce more and more top tier journal publications, as measured by various schemes of journal rankings, and new templates for making some kind of difference in the real world, as measured by the ‘virtual/real’ world of digital measures, and digital outcomes that AACSB values as measures of faculty, department, and business college performativity.

The movement of this activity of retotalizing the university from an academic into a business enterprise is embodying all parts of the university, as the virtual/real becomes embedded in the actual/real and is being realized in what passes for knowledge. Clearly a critical investigation of everyone’s reflexive experience of this transformation to the patchwork ensemble we call the university of higher education is past due.

I will spend my last semester as full time faculty at NMSU engaged in a system wide consultation, lead my just me. My plan is to institutionalize the 17 UN sustainable development goals (SDG’s) at NMSU, using two courses I teach and my long term affiliation with the Sustainability Council, and Greening the Curriculum (see http://greening.nmsu.edu & Boje, 2014).

What kind of consultancy practice am I to use that relates storytelling to socioeconomics to the transformation in the living present of the university? Storytelling is retrospective narrative sensemaking (Weick, 1995), living story webs of ‘living present’ unfolding in once-occurrent moment of Being’ (Bakhtin, 1994), and it is prospective antenarrative sensemaking.

What I will do at AOM 2018 is present twice. One presentation is the pedagogy of teaching ‘Socioeconomic Approach to Management’ (SEAM) done in relation to storytelling, to transform both ‘small businesses’ and what is left of my university as it becomes university-as-business. The second presentation is my invited speech to the ‘Management Consulting Division.’ It is also about SEAM and storytelling, but this time as an alternative to the kinds of consultancy that is practiced by the 10 consultancy giants, who advise the vast majority of the Fortune 100, 500, and 1000 largest corporations, as well as, government and university institutions. In both presentations I see a possibility of a new future for consultancy, by taking up the gauntlet of the UN 17 SDG’s. I think this new path is very important if humanity is to save itself from the 6th extinction, this time the extinction of most of humankind is at stake. Mother Earth will survive, and the cockroach species will flourish, unless we as consultant to the the 10 giant consultancy firms with the ear of the Fortune 1000, the government and the university institutions, engage in a new kind of reflexive practice called socially & sustainability responsible capitalism (Savall, Peron, & Bonnet, 2016) or what Bakhtin long ago, called moral answerability for the Situation of once-occurrent eventness of Being, and what Kaupapa Maori paradigm calls indigenous ways of knowing (IWOK) reindigenizing the western ways of knowing (WWOK) or what Rosile (2016) calls Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics.

A moral reflexivity on consultation complicity with Sixth Extinction will widen the audience's ability to take intelligent public action in the face of the planetary boundaries for life on Earth. The Earth will survive, but in the 6th extinction scenario, it is doubtful that humanity will, unless we all stop rearranging the deck chairs on the great Titanic long enough to live within planetary boundaries. By developing counter accounts, hidden costs, and qualimetric consultation, we can join in producing transformative change that gives a 'true storytelling' of corporate social end planetary responsibility. Counter accounts are defined as alternative representations of organizations, industries or governance regimes. Hidden costs are produced beyond what is given to decision makers in corporate information systems. Qualimetrics is defined as the interplay of qualitative, quantitative, and financial methods. Consultation can take a quantum leap forward by moving from a 'humancentric’praxis to one that is posthumanist. Posthumanist is defined as consulting for all species, rather than privileging only humanity. Each is a way of storytelling the collision course of humanity with planetary boundaries (no more clean water, breathable air, living soil, or enough biodiversity to support not only human life, but posthumanism (all life). There is an emergence of socioeconomic action that is in relation to alleviating the suffering of others, and the current 6th extinction that is now happening. 

We are now in the throes of the 6th Extinction. In the first five extinctions, it was mainly marine species that died-off in great numbers.

Figure 4: First 5 Major Mass Extinctions

Telling the Story that Needs to Be Told in Consultation Sixth Mass Extinction is the massive die-off of plants and animals all across the planet, which this time, includes the die-off of most of humanity. Scientists are saying, the 6th Extinction will be 10 to 100 times greater than any previous mass extinction.

Globalization has brought many conveniences, the Internet connections across countries, the ability to do social media with people who are plugged in. However, globalization, is also a struggle among corporations, and among nations to use planetaroy resources beyond planetary limits. There are nine Earth systems which are now beyond planetary imits. These 9 processes changes have thrust the Globalization theory beyond key boundaries threatening the extinction of most of humanity unless a praxis change is made (Rockström et al., 2009; Boje 2018a in press):

1. Climate Change
2. Biodiversity Loss
3. Biogeochemical – Phosphorous Change
4. Ocean Acidification
5. Land Use Crisis
6. Fresh Water Crisis
7. Ozone Depletion
8. Atmospheric Aerosols
9. Chemical Pollution by Plastics & Heavy Metals

My proposal is quite simple and clear. It is time to teach the 10 consultancy giants a MC and ODC praxis that can bing corporations, universities, and governments within planetary boundaries. One way to proceed is to put some rigor into the 17 UN Sustainability goals.

Figure 5: True Storytelling approach to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (see http://truestorytelling.org).

True Storytelling Workshop Slides DJØF May 16 2018 It has 7 ethical storytelling qualities and 7 principles of True Storytelling.

What are the True Storytelling Principles?

1. Truth: You yourself must be true and prepare the energy and effort for a sustainable future
2. Make room: True storytelling makes spaces respecting the stories already there
3. Plot: You must create stories with a clear plot creating direction and help people prioritize
4. Timing: You must have timing
5. Help stories along: You must be able to help stories on their way and be open to experiment
6. Staging: You must consider staging including scenography and artifacts
7. Reflection: You must reflect on the stories and how they create value 

A new approach to consultancy can develop 17 UN sustainability goals in local communities, schools, universities, cities, and municipalities using True Storytelling Praxis approach True Storytelling is ethical praxis, a methodology, & antenarrative process of strategy. It is opposite of fake news, fake story, or fake CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). In the Copenhagen True Storytelling Seminar Youtube, David Boje, Jens Larsen, and Danish National Police Commissioner Jens Henrik Højbjerg explore the method and practice of true storytelling. They develop examples for police, business, United Nations sustainable development goals, education, and health care. Slides and info at http://truestorytelling.org.

I would like to suggest that consultancies use counter-accounts, and what Savall and Zardet (2008) call the qualimetrics approach. Counter-accounts, is the work of Critical Theory Accounting (Stubbs, Higgins, & Milne, 2013). Qualimetrics is triadic of quantitative, financial, & qualitative inquiry; Socioeconomics of socially-responsible [productive rather than speculative] capitalism (Savall, Péron, Zardet, & Bonnet, 2016). Qualimetrics is the qualitative, quantiative, and financial diagnosis and evaluation of organization performance that helps organizations engage in socially responsible capitalism within planetary boundaries.

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