Squirrel, Inc.
A Fable of Leadership Through Storytelling

I wrote extensive book reading notes on my personal blog, from which I'm bringing you the intro: Business needs more storytelling. It needs more storytellers. This book has taught me the basic elements of a story, and it gave me specific examples of the situations and the kinds of stories a business......more

Rating - 6.1 Two interesting comments "people want to be convinced of their idea not your idea" and " the courageous begin a movement but soon become victims to its success" do not equal time well spent The move to business fiction is growing but this one does not work for me - I can appreciate the us......more

A good reminder of the power of communication and that we learn and remember items we learn in story form.......more

I loved the simple, storytelling style of this book. It presents some complex issues in an intuitive way but it seems higher on inspiration than on substance. It's hard to take away anything concrete that can be implemented in real life. Also, at times I felt the author's portrayal of certain archet......more

Although this book was designed to be an inservice on how to motivate underlings through storytelling, it was just a plain, good read. I did, however, see characteristics of many of my coworkers in many of the main characters. I would recommend this book for adults in the business world.......more