The Leader's Guide to Storytelling

Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

Hardcover, 384 pages

English language

Published April 22, 2005 by Jossey-Bass.

ISBN:
978-0-7879-7675-0
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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.

7 editions

Subjects

  • Management & management techniques
  • Organizational communication
  • Business/Economics
  • Business & Economics
  • Business / Economics / Finance
  • Public speaking
  • Leadership
  • Business & Economics / Leadership
  • Business communication
  • Communication in management