Lead with Story author Paul Smith has a nifty recent post in which he presents a story a client submitted to him for improvement suggestions. Paul offers his suggestions, but he also invited some of the luminaries of the applied-story world to give theirs. David Hutchens, Andrew Nemiccolo, and Annette Simmons … Continue reading
Category Archives: Organizational Storytelling
Calling All Story Practitioners: What’s Your Take on These Questions about Storytelling in Management, Leadership?
Pia Christina Bröckelmann is a student in Mexico conducting research for her thesis on “Storytelling in Management – an Effective Tool for Leadership.” Her deadline is very tight; she needs responses this week (March 25 at the latest). She has been interviewing story practitioners, such as Paul Smith and Karen … Continue reading
If Only We Had Listened: An Assessment and Broad Overview of the Status And Scope of Narrative Practice
Graham Williams and Dorian Haarhoff of The Halo and the Noose are offering an article, “If Only We Had Listened: An Assessment and Broad Overview of the Status And Scope of Narrative Practice,” and submit this note for readers: “We share Theodore Levitt’s belief that …a colourful and lightly documented affirmation works better than the … Continue reading
New Book Distills Leadership Stories Down to 3 Types
Annette Simmons (The Story Factor, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins) tells us of six kinds of stories that can be told in organizations; Steve Denning (The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling) lists seven; Paul Smith (Lead with a Story) describes stories for 21 business challenges. But in The Three Stories … Continue reading
Doug Rice Launches #StoryChat on Twitter
Colleague Doug Rice (see my Q and A with him here) is initiating “a Twitter chat centered around the story concept in business, art, and life” — #StoryChat. He’ll feature “copywriters, screenwriters, novelists, photographers, storytellers, and many other professionals and interesting people who use story as a platform for what … Continue reading
More About Lead with a Story
For readers interested in the new book by this week’s Q and A subject Paul Smith, here’s a press release from the publisher. I got a copy of the book myself yesterday, but since I’m not very good at following through with book reviews (slow reader), I’m providing this background: … Continue reading
You’ll Affirm the Wisdom of Investing in Reinvention Summit 2 When You Experience Mini-Conference-Preview
I’ve told you the last Reinvention Summit was amazing. I’ve shared with you this year’s jaw-dropping lineup from the storytelling firmament. I’ve mentioned the deals — that buying a ticket is like getting half price because you actually get two tickets for the price of one. If you have an … Continue reading
Stories to Instill Pride in New Employees
During my PhD program, I tried to latch onto the term “organizational entry” to describe, in part, my field of research. Organizational entry is the term used in academia to cover there activities surrounding bringing new employees into an organization. Though the term is much more commonly applied to what … Continue reading
New Finds in Organizational Storytelling
Today’s rollout of finds that will eventually end up on an inside page is in the category of Links to Organizational Storytelling Resources. These links mostly represent organizational-storytelling practitioners and sites/blogs about organizational storytelling. History Factory: Heritage management firm that helps today’s leading global corporations, organizations and institutions discover, preserve … Continue reading
iBooks Author: Hey Kids, Let’s Write a Storytelling Textbook; Who’s with Me?
When I was teaching, I was so appalled at the prices of college textbooks that I used an assortment of popular-press books instead of texts. I knew from Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs that Jobs, too, was appalled, and one of the next things on his agenda was to … Continue reading