Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I sometimes use storytelling with my clients to make a point. This could be a decision related to a business strategy, a change in company policy, or a response to a crisis. Sometimes, the stories are more profound than any coaching or guiding I could do.

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Power Leadership Storytelling Uncertainty 213

QAspire

MARCH 30, 2019

Most importantly, let others be in-charge when crisis hits. Other Sketchnotes from WhatsNext Podcast: Technology and Being Human : Arianna Huffington Building a Culture of Excellence : Tom Peters On Disrupting Yourself : Whitney Johnson Storytelling in Business : Nancy Duarte The Human Side of Business : Seth Godin. Challenge people.

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Wiseman Storytelling Godin Crisis 195

Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2021

What if the next global crisis is a mental health pandemic? Anxiety at Work shows how everyone at all levels can work together to build an environment that fosters camaraderie, productivity, and calm. Wellbeing at Work by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter. It is here now.

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Books Leadership Executive Coaching Uncertainty 258

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Connect with Randy on Twitter at @RandyConley Wally Bock – Leadership Storytelling “Storytelling is a leadership power tool.” Randy Conley shares how you can make competent and confident decisions in trusting others in, The 4-Point Test to Evaluate a Person’s Trustworthiness.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Storytelling 215

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from October 2012 that you might have missed: Story vs. Storytelling by @tomasacker. MaxMckeown: " A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." ~ The Truth About Innovation cc: Larry Page, Google. NPR Decision Time: Why Do Some Leaders Leave A Mark? Are You Prepared for Your Moment of Truth? by @jamesstrock.

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Emotional Intelligence Charisma Blanchard Storytelling 268

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. Littman & Camp : Leaders are tested during times of crisis. Littman & Camp : There’s no time like the present!

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Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 10, 2019

Some of the imagery used by the media to portray the Syrian refugee crisis was some of the most harrowing seen in modern times. Research from the Missouri School of Journalism suggests such images were typical of the reporting of the crisis, and helped to create a perception of the refugees as victims. . ” Storytelling.

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Media Belief Systems Crisis Storytelling 54

The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

As Aesop, the ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller, observed, “After all is said and done, more is said than done.” Leadership Development/Succession Planning Many organizations face a growing crisis as their leaders approach retirement or experience health problems.

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Development Team Short-term Teamwork 98

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. Littman & Camp : Leaders are tested during times of crisis. Littman & Camp : There’s no time like the present!

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It sounds counterintuitive, but times of crisis are historically often the best point to create a disruptive new business. Storytelling is key. Storytelling helps you build a tribe. Littman & Camp : Leaders are tested during times of crisis. Littman & Camp : There’s no time like the present!

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Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Your marketing department will also let you in on the secret to codifying your employer brand and attracting the best talent: storytelling. When you incorporate storytelling into your employer brand, you achieve several important goals. Storytelling has another very powerful function: it inserts the reader into the story.

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Brand Storytelling Strategy Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2023

They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders. We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world.

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Article Storytelling Magazine Energy 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

We asked him why he feels passionate enough about the museum crisis that he keeps telling the story and imparting its lessons, year after year. ” Our term for the role Wilson played is Storyteller in Chief. .” ” Our term for the role Wilson played is Storyteller in Chief. A crisis leader must be a storyteller.

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Crisis Storytelling Open-book Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2020

Amid this crisis, a lot of CEOs are coming up with various ideas and offers for their employees to not only ensure their productivity but also their mental well being. When not at her writing desk she is often found enjoying her coffee in the nearby cafe and enjoying some storytelling shows.

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Productivity Products CEO Class 89

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Greg Mortensen also apparently felt the need to overpromise with his now discredited storytelling in Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools. So when critics and opponents found a good headline, there was plenty of fodder to attack the industry.

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Microfinance Entrepreneur Crisis Short-term 15

ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Employer Branding Strategy Your marketing department will also let you in on the secret to codifying your employer brand and attracting the best talent: storytelling. When you incorporate storytelling into your employer brand, you achieve several important goals. First, you convey a consistent message.

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Brand Storytelling Strategy Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The function of storytelling is still essential, but occurs at different levels of aggregation, from Storyful , a tool that allows anyone to put together tweets, pictures, and blog posts in a rough narrative, to quick blog posts assembling information and analysis in real time, to more finished pieces that rely on the art of the storyteller.

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Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

The science of storytelling and brand performance. As I discuss in my book Analytics: The Agile Way, how Nextdoor responded illustrates not only the importance of reacting quickly in a crisis , but how useful a data-driven, agile approach can be. ” Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Agility Report Storytelling Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Is your company a storyteller — or a storydoer? The old way to market a business was storytelling. How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism.

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Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

In rural Ghana, folk media (puppetry, songs, proverbs, theater, and storytelling) has combatted HIV/AIDS, according to CARE International researchers. Here is why drama andstorytellingwork. Communication Crisis management Health' Kaiser Permanente has reached more than 15 million in the U.S.

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Power Management Storytelling Crisis Management 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

More and more of my work involves communicating through the written word and exposing myself to some of the great storytellers of our time improves my ability to make my point "stick" [link] Scott Eblin I read (key word there) once that if you're able to read and don't, you might as well be illiterate. and college.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 10, 2010

When you don’t fit “on paper”, become a great storyteller… Stories can create an image that help people visualize how your skillset fits their requirements. Don’t manage your dream off the side of your desk… take the time to think through very clearly what drives your career happiness.

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Career Self-aware Blog Learning-by-Doing 37

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Ellis is a wonderful storyteller. — in crisis situations. There are any number of good reasons to read Joseph J. Ellis’s splendid little book, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence. His prose is lucid and succinct. Revolutionary Summer is a riveting exposition of exploded myths and excruciating dilemmas.

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Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Through visuals, storytelling, and metaphors that resonate with the company''s business leaders, CIOs must develop the skill of showing their stakeholders that foundational investments are the table stakes of innovation. The CIO In Crisis: What You Told Us. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Innovation vs. Regulation. This is a stifling tax on a company’s capacity to find creative approaches to solving unmet customers’ needs.

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Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Ellis is a wonderful storyteller. — in crisis situations. There are any number of good reasons to read Joseph J. Ellis’s splendid little book, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence. His prose is lucid and succinct. Revolutionary Summer is a riveting exposition of exploded myths and excruciating dilemmas.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The science of storytelling and brand performance. Several African and Asian countries have used Ushahidi ’s crowd mapping technology for crisis monitoring during natural disasters, post-electoral violence, and other crises. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Short-term Brand Long-term Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

As storyteller, Jackson hits hardest on the theme of traditions, and how hard they die even when pointlessly damaging. If you've read The Lottery , you know that it describes a village in which one person is chosen each year, by lottery, to be stoned to death by his or her fellow citizens.

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Participative Storytelling Download Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

If you have a legal crisis on your hands, for example, your general counsel is “the most important person in the room.” “He was a great storyteller and presenter,” says Mario. ” And this employee’s “skills need to be center stage.” Selecting Brad for the team was a no-brainer.

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Management Video Team Case Study 9