My job here at A Storied Career is to curate applied-storytelling resources (yet another tip of the hat to Terrence Gargiulo for that characterization). Time was when I would write a blog entry about every new storytelling resource I came across. It quickly became apparent, though, that so many fabulous … Continue reading
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Storytelling Helps Us Remember More than the Standard Seven Data Points
Mike Speiser recently wrote on the GigaOM Network that “our short-term memory is widely believed to have a capacity of seven elements, plus or minus two,” which is the reason, Speiser notes, “that U.S. phone numbers have seven digits.” If you connect items (or data points) together as a story, … Continue reading
‘Tell Me About a Time ….’ You Created a Story-Sharing Culture in Your Organization
In a wonderfully well-articulated recent article on the blog Philantopic, my friend Thaler Pekar (pictured) makes a concise and persuasive argument for “creating a true culture of story sharing within our organizations, especially those that function as hubs of entrepreneurship and innovation, and especially at this uncertain moment” — as … Continue reading
Finally: “Story-Mindedness” from the Employer Side
Storytelling in the job search is my crusade, one that I am joined in by a small band of folks on the job-seeker-advocacy side of the desk: Terrence Gargiulo, Rob Sullivan, and Judy Rosemarin among the most prominent of them. I am also quick to pick up hints and glimpses … Continue reading
All Conferences Should be Storied
I’m a little surprised not to have known about Business Innovation Factory’s Collaborative Innovation Summit before this year, given that the fifth one is happening Oct. 7-8. For this is a conference not of speakers, but of stories, as Saul Kaplan describes it: No PowerPoint presentations, no matrix, just stories. … Continue reading
Your Brand Is Your Story Is Your Promise
I’ve been rummaging through my A Storied Career files, not because I need material (I always have far more than then I know what to do with), but just to make sure I don’t overlook some really good stuff, and a piece by Chris Brogan from more than a year … Continue reading
Please Be Seated for “Best Toilet Story”
[Thanks to Thaler Pekar for alerting me to this one.] Did you know that toilets get Tweeted about on Twitter nearly 750 times weekly? I have bad dreams about this sort of thing, but the “Tell Us Your Best Toilet Story” contest from American Standard is the chance to win … Continue reading
New-Economy Job-Search Stories Sought for Job Action Day
Quintessential Careers, the parent site of A Storied Career, marks the second annual Job Action Day worldwide on Nov. 2 — a day for job-seekers and workers to confront the recession head-on and take action steps to bolster their careers. I want to run at least one positive story on … Continue reading
Another Hunch Bites the Dust — But Stories Still Rule
My intuition that The Help by Kathryn Stockett would be Oprah’s next book-club selection did not pan out, but at least her pick features stories: Say You’re One of Them is a collection of short stories by Uwem Akpan about the plight of children in modern-day Africa.
The Help: A Riveting Novel about Telling Stories — Will It Be Oprah’s Next Selection?
2020 retrospective reflection on this post: During the 2020 racial protests following the murder by police of George Floyd in Minnesota, I learned that The Help is not seen as a particularly helpful anti-racist novel (could be why Oprah didn’t pick it for her book club). I learned that Viola … Continue reading