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How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller

Skip Prichard

Persuasive storytelling is one of the most important key skills in almost every profession. Leadership Tip: Great communicators start by asking “What story does my presentation want to tell?” The post How to Become a Master Persuasive Storyteller first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights.

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Win Back Trust with Raw, Unscripted, and Real Messaging

Skip Prichard

Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. We view control over our time as more important than “lots of money in the bank” as a sign of success. The world isn’t going 100% towards raw and away from longer form storytelling or high production value content. Far from it.

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Squirrel Inc.: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling Stephen Denning Josey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2004) Nuts R Us Think about it. Who are among the greatest storytellers throughout history? Squirrel Inc.:

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Have Your Voice But Don’t Be Judgemental: An Interview with Stuart Sneer UPB Chairman

CO2

Stu’s motto is “I want to be a family owned, professionally run, community bank. I expected to be able to learn a few new leadership skills. There are storytellers and spreadsheet people; I’m a storyteller but need sometimes to show up as the spreadsheet guy. In the process, he helped consolidate seven charters into one.

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Have Your Voice But Don’t Be Judgemental: An Interview with Stuart Sneer UPB Chairman

CO2

Stu’s motto is “I want to be a family owned, professionally run, community bank. I expected to be able to learn a few new leadership skills. There are storytellers and spreadsheet people; I’m a storyteller but need sometimes to show up as the spreadsheet guy. In the process, he helped consolidate seven charters into one.

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Data Analysis Should Be a Social Event

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, much has been written about analysts as storytellers (see, for instance, A Data Scientist''s Real Job on HBR.org) and about creativity as part of the analytical process, but what has not been explored is the storytelling analyst actively participating in co-creating value with others. This approach works well in business.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Health Leadership Organizational culture'