The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8149391M
- ISBN-139780787976750
- ISBN-10078797675X
- OCLC Control Number57675873
- OCLC Control Numberleadersguidetost0000denn
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- Library of Congress Control Number2005003105
- Goodreads1131157
- LibraryThing206883
Classifications
- LCCHD30.3 .D457 2005
Description
In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization "stunningly vulnerable" to a new idea.
Description
"In this hands-on guide, Stephen Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time." "Whoever you are in the organization - CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines - you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, The Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal - and most difficult - challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time can make an organization "stunningly vulnerable" to a new idea."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
In 1998, I made a pilgrimage to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, seeking enlightenment.
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