The Leaders Guide to Storytelling, Stephen Denning
The Leaders Guide to Storytelling, Stephen Denning
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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

Author: Stephen Denning

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A Leaders Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using tons of examples and how-to techniques, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. New to this edition: updated examples and techniques, drawn from his training DVD new chapter on how to use storytelling to create high-performance teams new chapter on narrative intelligence and how the most successful leaders use stories, rather than Power Points, to get their ideas across

About Stephen Denning

Stephen Denning is a renowned management innovator and popular Forbes.com columnist. A former World Bank executive, he serves on the advisory board for the Drucker Forum and is the author of several books including The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Frank on April 04, 2023

Some interesting extracts from the book: What is the purpose of stories: - End of preface: Stories generate meaning. They embody our values. They give us the clues from which we can discover what ultimately matters. - Page 10: Stories supplement analytical thinking by enabling us to imagine new perspe......more

Goodreads review by André on March 04, 2013

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Goodreads review by Nadya on May 25, 2021

I really enjoy Steve Denning's writing, "The Age of Agile" is brilliant and I found this book really useful for my work. Storytelling, as a leader's tool, is highly underutilized in the corporate setting as well as in the learning setting. One of the best chapters was on interactive and transformati......more

Goodreads review by Les on June 21, 2019

This was okay. It tried to present a cookbook type of approach to business storytelling and, on the main, I suppose it mostly achieved that goal. Where the formula breaks down will be as soon as you move out to the margins and any leader with experience will quickly recognize that the margins are wh......more

Goodreads review by Colin on May 16, 2013

I am not convinced that business is really ready for narrative. I like where Denning is coming from but my experience says it's an uphill battle getting anyone to swallow the pill.......more

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