Stephen Denning

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling

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  • kemijhas quoted8 years ago
    what you stand for, others come to know you and respect you for that.
  • kemijhas quoted8 years ago
    everything is transformed in performance.
  • Кристина Дьяченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Storytelling is fundamental to the human search for meaning.”
    —Mary Catherine Bateson1
  • Кристина Дьяченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion—of winning people’s minds and hearts. Typically it proceeds inductively by argument from one or more examples toward a more general conclusion about the goals and assumptions we should adopt toward the matter in question. Story-telling is thus inherently suited to the task of leadership.
  • Кристина Дьяченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    And that is one of the points of this book: to point out matters of profound interest to both the world of storytelling and the world of leadership.
  • Кристина Дьяченкоhas quoted8 years ago
    Storytelling and leadership are both performance arts, and like all performance arts, they involve at least as much doing as thinking
  • Asel Kambalovahas quoted8 years ago
    The effective use of storytelling in organizations involves crafting and performing a well-made story with a hero or heroine, a plot, a turning point, and a resolution.
  • Asel Kambalovahas quoted8 years ago
    A compellingly told well-made story is effective regardless of the purpose for which the story is being told
  • Asel Kambalovahas quoted8 years ago
    A storyteller catches and holds the attention of an audience by evoking the sights and sounds and smells of the context in which the story took place
  • Asel Kambalovahas quoted8 years ago
    Storytelling is a rare skill in which relatively few human beings excel
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