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Three Communication Tips Every Leader Should Use

Great Leadership By Dan

I had just wrapped up a “Brief Leadership” seminar with a group of manufacturing managers and one of their senior leaders pulled me aside afterward. Many managers feel that way when they realize the impact they have on others when they get lost in their own words. “I wish I knew how important brevity was for me 30 years ago.”

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The Power of Your Network is the "Ask"

Mills Scofield

Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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5 Must-Read Books For Business Leaders For Summer 2013

Eric Jacobson

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. His advice?

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

Strategy Driven

’ Use storytelling to build different scenarios about the future so you can imagine what the implications might be. She is an AthenaOnline management expert and a faculty member of the Institute of Management Studies. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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What The Boss Can Teach Us About Life, Harmony & Impact

Mills Scofield

A great storyteller must be a great listener. Since 1984 Stew Friedman has been at Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 2013 he published Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Wharton Digital Press). But communication about expectations must be a two-way street.

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Data Alone Won’t Get You a Standing Ovation

Harvard Business Review

.” And she said, “But the thing I liked about your talk is you’re a storyteller. So I think what I’ll do is just call you a storyteller.” I thought, you know, I am a storyteller. And maybe I’m just a storyteller.”. As Brown suggests, we’re all storytellers. million deaths a year.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. More than 60% of the storytellers reported that someone they had worked with in the past helped them find their next job.