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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

I’ve covered tech for 20 years, so I’d interviewed people like Mark Zuckerberg and the Google founders early in their careers. They didn’t have to be good storytellers because their businesses spread virally and their products stood for themselves. Uber and Airbnb are different.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data. Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. Whose will be gored? Who will get promoted? Who will lose their job?

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5 Things Digital CMOs Do Better

Harvard Business Review

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Perhaps no other business function has changed as dramatically over the past decade. Shelve the commercial pitch in favor of authentic storytelling. Tami Cannizzaro is a brand storyteller.