Business consultant, leadership development coach, and author Nathan R Mitchell, is giving members of Generation X the opportunity to share their personal story in an upcoming book titled Turn That Frown Upside Down: Discover Meaning and Fulfillment in the Workplace. “I'm extremely excited about having the opportunity to introduce my … Continue reading
Category Archives: Entrepreneurial Storytelling
Blurring the Lines and Building the Backstory
In Back to the Future: How to Find a New Vision in Your Back Story, Dr. Juliet Bruce notes: “In this constantly shifting marketplace, there’s no longer a strong segmentation [among] job seekers, consultants, and solopreneurs.” Therefore, when many of us strive to tell our stories with the goal of … Continue reading
Google and AMEX Helping Small Businesses Tell their Story on Video
Too bad I didn’t learn about this tool sooner as TODAY is the deadline for entering a contest based on the tool (but there’s no deadline for just using it). Google and American Express have created a tool to make it easier for small-business owners to create a short video … Continue reading
Telling New-Venture Stories Paints a Picture for Investors
The New Prosperity Initiative (NPi) is a Boston-based media organization “that pairs storytelling with new media to publicize the efforts of people and organizations doing socially innovative work to end poverty and build prosperity. NPi stories take the shape of interviews, photo essays, videos, and podcasts and are distributed both … Continue reading
Flokka: Story Prompts for Entrepreneurial Stories
Flokka, the tagline of which is “Where women in business blog,” encourages women to share their stories. Aliza Pilar Sherman, in an article reprinted from Her Business magazine, tells women readers of having lunch with other women at conference and sharing stories of business woes with another woman at her … Continue reading
Using Story to Analogize a Complex Entrepreneurial Concept
A venture capitalist named Josh recently told a long but interesting story of Francis Bates (read more on page 1014 of this PDF download), who invented the flags that come on mailboxes to indicate that there’s mail in the box. The story is an analogy for a company that Josh’s … Continue reading
Real Women’s Stories of Success and Inspiration
The Forté Foundation is a consortium of major corporations and top business schools that has become a powerful change agent in educating and directing talented women toward leadership roles in business. Forte’s mission is to substantially increase the number of women business leaders by increasing the flow of women into … Continue reading
About Us Provides Opportunity to Tell Your Organization’s Story
I get very frustrated when Web sites either have no About Us page or have About Us pages that really reveal nothing. A classic case in point of a tell-nothing About Us page is Twitter’s. Now, I know what Twitter is, what it does. But I’d like the perspective of … Continue reading
Guidelines for Entrepreneurial (or Job-seeker) Stories
I’ve been interested in entrepreneurial storytelling since I taught an entrepreneurial seminar using storytelling as the central theme. If I were teaching it now, I might direct my students to a blog entry and podcast by author and marketing expert Lisa Johnson of Reach Group Consulting offering a framework for … Continue reading