Malcolm Gladwell’s next book apparently will be about the challenge of hiring in the modern world. Amazon lists his next book as Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don’t, which doesn’t sound exactly like the topic he talked about at the recent New Yorker Stories from the Near Future … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Why Is This the Best Recruiting Video?
My friend Steve Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter.com calls this* the “best recruiting video.” He says: “After watching this video, the only candidates who aren’t more likely to want to work for Whirlpool are those without souls.” What he doesn’t say is why. Because it tells a story. *2020 Update: The referenced … Continue reading
A Storied Olympics
I’m not a huge sports fan — I like a little college football and Major League Baseball — but I’ve always been a bit of an Olympics junkie. I have come to realize that it’s largely the stories that attract me. When ABC used to cover the Olympics, they come … Continue reading
You Were Put on This Planet to Live an Extraordinary Life
I came across the utterly charming and uplifting site Tera’s Wish, subtitled “a free informational resource about Creativity.” The Tera’s Wish web site, the site says, “is about exploring the energy within each of us that fulfills and makes us most happy.” There are a heck of lot tools on … Continue reading
Telling Science Stories is Not a Trivial Thing
Through this posting by Jonah Lehrer in the blog The Frontal Cortex, I learned of a wonderful commencement address (superb content, well delivered) given by Robert Krulwich at the 2008 Cal Tech graduation ceremony. (The address is in RealPlayer format and doesn’t actually occur until about 9 minutes and 15 … Continue reading
Wordle-licious Friday
This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.
NY Times Blogger Cites Storytelling as Useful Career Skill
Marci Alboher, who authors the Shifting Careers blog for the New York Times has been running a series in which she “glean[s] useful career skills from attending more arts and cultural events.” Giving a shout-out to A Storied Career as evidence that it’s “well established that being a good storyteller … Continue reading
Are Stories Not Respectable in Art?
In a review on the Minnesota Artists (MNartists.org), art critic Ann Klefstad reflects on the “victorious return of story to art, a triumph evidenced by the narrative-rich work of the four McKnight Fellows on view at the MCAD Gallery” (which runs for just a few more days, though Aug. 10). … Continue reading
A Feast of Memoirs
The August issue of O magazine offers “O’s Memoir Feast,” eight “riveting true stories” introduced with these words: Tell me a story. Tell me your story. … Okay, talk to me, tell me who you really are. This is what we feel when we sit down to read a memoir. … Continue reading
Showing the World What’s Possible — One Story at a Time
Daryn Kagan’s online community features a daily Web cast of stories that “Show the World What is Possible.” The idea behind these stories is inspiration and triumph of the human spirit. Of course, all the stories are archived on the site and can be browsed under these categories: Animals, Artists, … Continue reading