# Output Template — `story-structure.md`

Copy this structure verbatim and fill in each field. A completed example follows.

## Template

```markdown
# Story Structure

## Intended Action
{One sentence. The verb the listener will perform after hearing the story. Not "be inspired" — an actual behavior.}

## Plot Classification
**Plot:** {Challenge | Connection | Creativity | none-fit}
**Why this plot:** {One line. Tie the intended action to the plot's inspiration engine.}

## Mode
**Simulation / Inspiration:** {S | I | S+I}
**Why:** {One line. Does the listener need to learn how to act, be moved to act, or both?}

## Delivery
**Mode:** {springboard | direct}
**Why:** {One line. Reference audience agency and context diversity.}

## Opening Line
> {The first sentence of the story. Drops the listener into a concrete scene — a place, person, date, weight, object. Does not summarize the moral.}

## Structured Story
{The story, aligned to the plot arc, within the time budget. Include only details that pull the intended-action lever.}

## Caveats
- {any [invented — verify] flags for details not in source material}
- {any dual-plot notes — which plot leads and why}
- {whether a direct argument would actually fit better than a story}
```

## Filled-in example

```markdown
# Story Structure

## Intended Action
Champion a knowledge-management initiative inside your own business unit this quarter.

## Plot Classification
**Plot:** Creativity
**Why this plot:** A remote health worker made a mental breakthrough by going outside normal channels to find malaria-treatment data on the CDC website — the arc inspires experimenting with new channels, which is what each executive needs to do in their own unit.

## Mode
**Simulation / Inspiration:** S+I
**Why:** Executives need the pattern (someone found useful knowledge outside the usual silos) AND the push to try the same in their own units.

## Delivery
**Mode:** springboard
**Why:** 15 execs run wildly different business units — each must generate their own version of "what would this look like in my world." A direct claim would wake the little voice in each exec to argue from their own context. Denning's original telling delivered this exact payload in 10-12 minutes.

## Opening Line
> In June 1995, a health-care worker in Kamana, Zambia — 360 miles from the nearest capital — logged onto the internet and tried to find out how to fight malaria.

## Structured Story
Kamana is a small town 360 miles from Zambia's capital. The health-care worker there was trying to fight malaria. There was no way to tap World Bank internal knowledge — a water-treatment guru in one country never meets a highway-construction guru in another. So he logged onto the internet and landed on the Centers for Disease Control's website in Atlanta. That's where he found the answers. This was 1996, long before the internet was the obvious first stop for anyone looking for anything.

{Conclusion intentionally unstated — each executive fills in "what would this look like in my unit?"}

## Caveats
- No fabrication — all facts from Denning's original *The Springboard* account as cited in *Made to Stick* Chapter 6.
- Dual-plot note: this also has faint Challenge-plot elements (finding information against the odds) but the inspirational engine is Creativity (going outside normal channels). Leading with Creativity because the intended action is experimentation.
- A direct argument ("we should build a knowledge-management function") would have been fought by each exec. The story fits better than a direct claim here.
```