Drama Theory: Acting Strategically
Key Terms
- Pradoxes of Rationality
- Metagame Analysis
- Confrontation Analysis
- Game Theory
- Drama Theory
- Conflict
- Resolution
- Dilemmas
- Rationality
- Rational choice
- Preference change
- Emotions
- Humanities
- Art and Culture
- Bharata Muni Natya Shastra
- Aristotle’s Poetics
- Integral Theory
- Ken Wilber
- Problem Structuring Methods
From Acting Strategically Using Drama Theory
In today’s confrontational and connected world, communication is the key strategic act. This book uses drama theory—a radical extension of game theory—to show how best to communicate so as to manage the emotionally charged confrontations occurring in any worthwhile relationship. Alongside a toolset that provides a systematic framework for analysing conflicts, drama theory explains why people need to listen to, and rely on, their feelings to help shake themselves out of fixed, unproductive positions and to find new ways of solving tough problems.
This guide provides a sufficient grounding in the approach to enable you to apply it immediately for your own benefit and for the benefit of those with whom you work. A host of inspirational examples are included based upon actual situations in social and personal relations, business and organisational relations, defence and political management. These will give you an entirely fresh way of seeing how power is exercised in everyday interpersonal exchanges and a greater critical awareness of such factors as subtext and plotholes in public narratives. Using this approach you will be able to overcome the dilemmas of credibility and disbelief to build compelling messages that underpin your strategic intent. Moving beyond the vague platitudes of concepts like emotional intelligence, drama theory will also help you to avoid the pathologies that bedevil the process of managing conflicts and find ways of achieving authentic resolutions.
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Key Sources of Research
Problem structuring methods in action
John Mingers a,*, Jonathan Rosenhead
Click to access Problem-Structuring-Methods-in-Action.pdf
Confrontation Analysis: a Command and Control System for Conflicts Other Than War*
Peter Murray-Jones
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Portsdown West, Hants, PO17 6AD UK pmurrayjones@dera.gov.uk
Nigel Howard
ISCO Ltd, 10 Bloomfield Road, Birmingham B13 9BY UK
Co-ordinated Positions in a Drama-theoretic Confrontation: Mathematical Foundations for a PO Decision Support System
Peter Murray-Jones
(DERA)
Nigel Howard
(dramatec)
12 Chesham Road, Brighton BN2 1NB, UK Tel.: +44 1273 67 45 86
e-mail: nhoward@dramatec.com)
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
By Steven J. Brams
Strategic and Dilemma Analysis of a Water Export Conflict
ftp://ftp.theochem.ru.nl/pub/toinesmits/PDF_files_supporting_literature_24%2625-11-2009/2005ObeidiStrategic%20and%20dilemma%20analyses%20of.pdf
Game Theory and Literature
Steven Brams
Decision Making Using Game Theory: An Introduction for Managers
An introduction for managers
Anthony Kelly
Click to access Decision-Making-Using-Game-Theory-An-Introduction-for-Managers.pdf
Foundation of Subjective Confrontation Analysis
Pri Hermawan1, Kyoichi Kijima2*
http://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings50th/article/download/334/107
Drama, Emotion, and Cultural Convergence
D. Lawrence Kincaid
Click to access Kincaid%20drama.pdf
DRAMA THEORY AND METAGAME ANALYSIS
Nigel Howard
Click to access 666923c54a0189c888080db4e5b8c4529783.pdf
Viewpoints which Matter 