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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

And I now have the opportunity to speak to audiences all over the world about the power of storytelling as a leadership tool — all very humbling for a book that started out as a weekend writing project. What you want to avoid is just giving them a list of actions — what you did: “I led a strategy development team.

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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

If an employee is glued to her desk with headphones on, immersed in music and G-chatting with her best buddy, she is missing the opportunity to create relationships with people on the job who might be launching a project for which she'd be perfect, or who's kicking around the idea to launch a new firm that needs precisely her talents.