**Pattern Name:**
Personal Stories
**Introduction:**
Personal stories are required for trust. Impersonal, mechanical, approaches often fail to inspire cooperation.
**Illustration:**
**CONTEXT:**
Managing within growing complexity requires cooperation. The critical question of our time is how best to find cooperation. This raises the question, what are the possibilities across scales (number of participants) and geographies.
**PROBLEM:**
**When commitment, creativity, and persistence are required more than transactions are needed.**
**Forces:**
Urgency Respect Subtilty Shared models and worldviews.
**THEREFORE (SOLUTION):**
**Personal commitment requires trust and trust requires knowing one another. So we must share our stories, revealing our deepest motivations to each other.**
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**RELATED PATTERNS:**
See Marshall Ganz