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Using Storytelling To Craft And Communicate Your Strategic Vision

Tanveer Naseer

I held that belief for most of my career, afraid that asking others for help crafting vision was a sign of intellectual weakness. For instance, Malcolm Gladwell explored the ties between choice and happiness by recounting the spectacular career of food scientist Howard Moscowitz. billion in annual revenue.

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Leading Matters: John L. Hennessy on the Leadership Journey

Leading Blog

Finally, he shows how collaboration, innovation, intellectual curiosity, storytelling, and creating change that lasts, helped him reach his goals. I ask them to tell me about their technology, and they answer, “Well, I don’t have it yet, but I want to do a start-up.” Storytelling. He then links them together with courage.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. Uncommon Greatness is the key many leaders have been searching for their entire career. It's time to fight back.

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10 Books You Should Read This Summer 2024

Leading Blog

In Supercommunicators , Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities.

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The Business Value Of Joy (And Just Getting Things Done)

Terry Starbucker

Rich has a fascinating backstory – he found his career calling at age 13, when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”. The use of “ High Speed Voice Technology ” and other decidedly lo-tech (but very effective) tools. Why the name “Menlo”?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Blog Post ).

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The Art of Successful Giving: Adam Grant

QAspire

Earlier in my career, I often ended up doing other people’s job simply because they delegated their work to me as my seniors. Other Sketchnotes from WhatsNext Podcast: Technology and Being Human : Arianna Huffington. Storytelling in Business : Nancy Duarte. Here’s what they look like: Givers : “What Can I do for you?”.