Reshaping The Story For Commerce Students

1. Reshaping
the Story
By
Kamlesh Joshi

2. Reshaping the Story
• Human is the only creature with a
marked capacity to think and imagine.
• Creativity is nothing but a multi-
dimensional thinking . Creativity
is no domain of any single person,
group, race or caste. “ you can,
if you think” and in every field of life
we need creativity and novelty.

3. Reshaping the Story
• Everyone posses creativity in different
measures. We need to look at the things from
different angles to find out newer meanings
from the old and existing ones.
• We have been known for centuries with stories,
tales, fables and parables and perhaps there is
no one who is not familiar with the
fables like Sour grapes, Hen laying
golden eggs, Hare and tortoise, etc.

4. Reshaping the Story
• We can reshape these stories to suit our
situations.
• In business world, people of management
describe following four types of situations.
1. A win-lose situation.
2. A lose-win situation.
3. A lose all situation.
4. A win-win situation.

5. Reshaping the Story
• Example:
• Now let’s understand all
four situations with a famous
fable of “ Tortoise And Hare”.
• Tortoise is slow but wins by its
extra ordinary spirit and Hare
could not avoid the momentary
greed of resting a while.
Hence it lost. This is a win-lose situation.

6. Reshaping the Story
• Now imagine a little twist
in this story. Again Hare invites
to Tortoise for the race.
• This time hare does not give
in to the temptation of resting
while the bet is on. The hare
wins ultimately.
This is an example of lose-win situation.

7. Reshaping the Story
• Now let’s try another
twist in this story. Tortoise
and Hare are again betting
for the same race. The race
starts. The tortoise applies
a little brain and thinks of
taking short cut to reach
the goal this time.

8. Reshaping the Story
But there is a problem. A huge
mountain blocks his way. He is
left behind and tired. He returns
to the starting point and declares
himself defeated. On the other
hand the hare tries to act over
smart. He thinks of taking a route
to reach his goal which is more
beautiful and full of greenery. He had taken the

9. The mountain was not a problem
for him but there was a river after
the mountain which was impossible
for him to cross. He was disappointed
to see such big river. He too returns
the same starting point and looks the
tortoise there. Both smile to each other.
This is called a lose all situation.
Reshaping the Story

10. Reshaping the Story
• Now they become friends. They
decided to overcome obstacles on
their way to goal. When mountain
is there, the hare carries tortoise
to cross it and when river comes
on the way, the tortoise carries hare’s
load to cross it. And lo ! ! The goal is
reached. This is a win-win situation.
Now they are friends forever.

11. Reshaping the Story
• Some useful tips for reshaping the story.
• Add colours of your own imagination into the
given tale/story.
• Give imaginative names to the characters and
names of places should be according to the
environments.
• Make beginning more interesting and specific.
• Add new twist and turns wherever necessary.

12. Reshaping the Story
• After retaining the original end of the story, add
a fresher and newer turn giving the story a novel
shape.
• Think of a suitable title to your version of the
story and place it at the beginning in bold
letters.
• Example:
You know the story of “Thirsty Crow”
very well. Now let’s reshape it
differently.

13. • Kaka(crow) looked some
water into the pot. He
remembered his last trick of
throwing pebbles in the pot
to bring the water level up to
reach its beak. The trick was
not very much successful.

14. A new idea came to his mind.
He saw that the low end of the
pot had become very soft due
to water.
He used his sharp beak to dig a
tiny hole in the lower part of the
pot.
Reshaping the Story

15. Reshaping the Story
And lo! Drop by drop the
water started trickling from that
hole and Kaka very happily
drank the water.
The water did not stop trickling
so he picked up some soft wet
clay from the ground and
sealed the hole.

16. It worked. Kaka was very happy for his tricks.
• ( can be used straw too to drink water which he
saw a boy drinking cold drink in a town)

17. Thank you