ABSTRACT
If we understand organizations as living communities, the large analytic group is a powerful tool for organizational praxis and learning from the experience of working together and exploring the cost of failing to do so. In large groups, all staff, or in larger organizations, representatives of all sections, meet face to face. With the help of a facilitator, they tell each other stories of mutual help, cooperation and conflict between departments and the top, middle, and bottom of the organization. These exchanges make explicit the link between the formal and informal organization and its past, present, and future. The uninhibited telling of stories enables the members of the large group to face up to what needs to be done next and in so doing confirm the way things are done and organized in our shared culture.
