Ed Konczal offers Simple Stories For Leadership Insights, Published by University Press of America. About using storytelling in leadership, he offers these words from others:
A serious business tool. “Steven Kerr, who oversees Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs, suggests a simple exercise: Ask your company’s best leaders to name the most powerful learning experiences they’ve had. They will hardly ever mention a class and will most always name a real-life experience in business.
The challenge is to find ways to replicate those experiences. –
STORIES JUST MIGHT BE THE ANSWER
“… a knowledge-sharing story offers a surrogate experience. When one reads a novel, one often feels as if one is living the experience described in the novel. So too when a story is recounted, the narrative form offers the listener an opportunity to experience in a surrogate fashion the situation that was experienced by the storyteller. — Deborah Sole, Daniel Gray Wilson, LILA Harvard University”
“Leadership storytelling is fast becoming one of the most popular methods of developing leaders. Management and Leadership Network “