This 300-item diagnostic evaluates your enterprise’s narrative health across the nine pillars of the YESS (Your Enterprise Strategic Storytelling) framework, plus a tenth Systemic Integration assessment. Each pillar contains twenty diagnostic questions and ten red flags - thirty items in total. The questionnaire is designed to be completed honestly and reflectively rather than quickly: each item describes a behaviour, structure, or fact that may or may not be present in your enterprise. The aim is not to find the “right” answer but to surface where your enterprise actually stands today.
The Strategic Storytelling framework holds that enterprise value is the product of operational excellence and narrative identity, not their sum. When the two are aligned, directed by Purpose, and governed by cross-pillar integration, the resulting value (3) exceeds the sum of the parts (1+1).
One item at a time. Each item presents a YES box and a NO box. Click YES if the item describes your enterprise as it actually is today; click NO if it does not. Each click advances you to the next item. A Back control lets you revisit a previous answer.
The Nine Pillars + Systemic Integration
PILLAR 1
Question
The Genesis Of Narrative Discovery
PILLAR 2
Vision
The Narrative Preceding The Product
PILLAR 3
Culture
The Enterprise As An Engaged Social Actor
PILLAR 4
Creativity
Breaking Category Inertia
PILLAR 5
Coherence
The Long Arc Of Narrative Discipline
PILLAR 6
Authenticity
The Governance Of Truth
PILLAR 7
Audience
Cultural Intelligence & Resonance
PILLAR 8
Product
Narrative Made Material
PILLAR 9
Purpose
The Teleology Of Strategic Direction
PILLAR 10
Systemic Integration
The Meta-diagnostic: How The Nine Pillars Function As An Integrated System
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300 Items · 200 questions + 100 red flags
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30-45 Minutes · Completed in one sitting
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Full Diagnostic · Sent to your email