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Theranos and the Dark Side of Storytelling

Harvard Business Review

To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. The book appealed to a predictable audience of English literature types as well as avid readers of popular science. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand.

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w Can You Make Your Resolution a Reality? It's all in the Timing

Women on Business

When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.” For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them.