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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.45 EAN: 9780787976750 Edition: 1 ISBN: 078797675X Label: Jossey-Bass Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: April 22, 2005 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Studio: Jossey-Bass Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Get Where People Are Coming From and They'll Go Where You'd Like Them to GoThis is THE book on using story telling to effect any change or influence you want to have on anyone in a company or organization. Without using the term "emotional intelligence" the book overflows with it in a direct and practical way. Denning basically says that the selection of what kind of story to tell is based on your intention and knowing the mind set and intentions of your audience. In other words, by thinking of what you want to accomplish and thinking of what your audience wants to accomplish ... Read More Rating:  - thnking outside the boxI thought that this book showed a different aspect to leadership. A very interesting book that is for everyone in everyday life. Rating:  - Go directly to the end of each chapterThis is a very scholarly book that really sheds light what it's like to be a business leader. Then Denning shows how storytelling can be part of an effective leadership tool box. Each chapter ends with a couple of pages of great instruction--how to craft and deliver the story that chapter was devoted to. I found the table on page 18 to be a helpful overview of the eight types of stories, their uses and what reactions they should elicit from the audience. However, business speakers ... Read More Rating: - Don't Miss the chapter on the paradox of innovationChapter 11, to be precise. It is the best critique of the Innovators Dillema and similar work that I have seen anywhere. It also has a good review of future vision techniques in Chapter 10. If I were teaching a graduate seminar in a business school, these would be assigned reading. Rating: - Put away the PowerPoint slidesGetting things done in business requires much more than hard facts and PowerPoint presentations -- it requires the ability to persuade, motivate and convince. Denning does a fantastic job demonstrating how to do this through storytelling - making your audience (your boss, teammates, customers) get involved in your idea, allowing them to put themselves into your story. Presentation slides have become a frustrating crutch -- few remember (or even trust) your numbers and unending bullet points. Put your audience ... Read More 
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