Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2024

As the demand for unique and luxurious outdoor experiences grows, glamping operators must find innovative ways to connect with their audience. These visuals, combined with compelling storytelling, can highlight the unique aspects of the glamping experience and convey their commitment to sustainability and luxury.

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Decker Communication

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We need to communicate clearly and effectively to achieve our ambitious 2024 goals, develop solid plans for next year, navigate the election, hold performance reviews, and be prepared for any potential organizational changes. Q4 is here, and the pressure is on. Get Curious: Curiosity does not require having all the answers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond Collaboration Overload : How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

My insight on the topic is based on the corporate storytelling work I do on transformational leaderships as well as storytelling for influence and engagement. You see, in storytelling, as noted by Aristotle, there must be logos (logic), ethos (ethics, credibility, values) and pathos (emotions).

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether you’re an experienced leader or an aspiring one, there’s always room for growth and development by embracing more innovative management styles. HBR On Leadership Perfect for professionals seeking advanced leadership insights and strategies from Harvard Business Review’s renowned experts.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 30, 2011

In a knowledge economy, firm-specific knowledge is critical to the sustainability, performance and innovation of organizations facing the imminent retirement of large numbers of baby boomers. A significant drain of business wisdom that decreases innovation, lowers growth capacity, and reduces efficiency in the organization.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

My Writing at QAspire Blog Excellence: Lessons From Anupam Kher The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives? (You can also visit monthly round ups of Jan 2010 , Feb 2010 , Mar 2010 , April 2010 , May 2010 , June 2010 and July 2010 ).

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

New employees hoped to avoid getting a “bad” boss and stayed worried about their pay raises and performance reviews. Great leaders are storytellers. Wise leaders know that success in the future will not come from incremental improvement but rather through disruptive innovation. Adams’s book devoted a full chapter to each story.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. A great storyteller must be a great listener. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

To explore our enthrallment and explain the science behind it, I wrote a book – The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand. And it’s also the reason that academic journals exclude storytelling technique from scientific reports.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Radical Management, though not succinctly defined by the author, is an approach to leadership and management that leads to greater job satisfaction, higher productivity, client delight and continuous innovation. The book’s subtitle accurately describes, as it should, what you can expect from this great read.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

So far Peters has posted close to 20 videos that explore a variety of ways to pursue excellence both personally and professionally including servant leadership, personal branding, innovation, performance management, and thriving during the recession - just to name a few.   Not big on online video?   Not big on online video?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 29, 2022

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. I selected this book as best for its innovative format, timely and pertinent content, and how easy it is to put what Paul teaches to immediate use as a leader. Every great leader is a great storyteller.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? I conduct interviews with innovators at the company, create fact sheets and videos about their work, write articles, and share all that content with various groups of clinicians and staffers. (For

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Organizations fall victim to the same phenomenon in innovation. As a result of coaching clients across industry and geography to maintain the intent of their ideas as they bring them to scale, I’ve observed four common characteristics of successful innovation implementation teams. Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Most leaders are interested in growing their businesses through innovation, but it's risky business: most innovation efforts fail. After years of helping to make innovation happen as chief communications officer at Steelcase and as a consultant, I have a point of view that I'm willing to bet on. Don't lose sight of the horizon.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. I selected this book as best for its innovative format, timely and pertinent content, and how easy it is to put what Paul teaches to immediate use as a leader. Every great leader is a great storyteller.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2018

In my experience, startup and technical business leaders don’t tell their innovation stories well. So whether you’re drafting website copy, a marketing brochure, an online article, or a press release, consider hiring professional storytellers to make the world-changing things you do mean something to regular people.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2024

By understanding your audience, optimizing for search engines, diversifying content formats, maintaining consistency, and engaging through storytelling, you can elevate your strategy to new heights. Engage Through Storytelling Storytelling transforms standard posts into relatable stories that resonate with your audience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

He's a great storyteller, but there are lots of great storytellers in the world. When I first met Christensen he was certainly well known due to the 1997 publication of The Innovator's Dilemma , which won the Global Best Business Book award. Ahead of the book launch, I had a long discussion with a reporter about Christensen.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Over the past three decades at IDEO, I’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies in the world and seen a lot of creative leaders in action. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). Innovation Book. Harvard Business Review. They jump-start their innovation journey with storytelling.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

Given how fashionable storytelling is today, you’d think every market-centered company would have a person like this on staff to manage the collective memory of its brand. You could think of this role as a “corporate historian,” “official archivist,” or “chief storyteller,” but I prefer “folklorist.”

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ExactHire - Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The “ Era of Innovation ” is one contender. Check review sites such as Glassdoor and LinkedIn to find out what people are saying about your workplace. Review your notes on exit interviews with parting employees. Always provide a respectful review of the reasons they didn’t get the job if you decide to hire someone else.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2016

The Kickstarter ecosystem brings together makers, backers, and early adopters as well as community building experts, videographers, and storytellers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Our tool, Metis, analyzes data from online reviews and social media to uncover problems and opportunities. But, as the Dorchester Collection’s director of global guest experience and innovation, I’ve discovered that often the data can only tell you where there’s a problem, not why it exists, or how to fix it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation. ”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Amidst the acrimony, it seems hard to imagine that public leaders could envision and operate such a platform, or that private innovators could work with them more collaboratively on it — but it’s not impossible. Without more public entrepreneurship, it’s hard to imagine meeting our public challenges or making the most of private innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

The main criteria were that the speakers came from outside the industry, and would be able to tell stories (sort of like TED-talks) about how other companies went about innovation and reinvention. Of course, this one event didn't change the wholesale distribution industry, and it cost Dirk a fair amount of time and money.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The science of storytelling and brand performance. A cumulative effect of the shifts described above may be a diminished value of brand heritage, relative to a rising premium on consumer-pleasing digital innovation. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google. Marketing and sales: offline vs. online.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One descriptive title I have seen for this role is “data artist” or “data storyteller.” The ability of data artists and storytellers to tackle questions like these has become a central tenet of the marketing modernization efforts we are making. What other barriers were we putting in the way?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To give just one example of storytelling, consider how the Cleveland Clinic made its decision to ask every patient seeking an appointment whether they would like to be seen today. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Below, we review briefly some of the innovative approaches to better understand patient needs that have been tried in various organizations, including the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Methodist Hospital in Houston, St. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Carl was a fellow- storyteller at this year’s BIF-9 conference. Innovators should learn that as well… because sometimes, control really is for beginners. Information & technology Innovation' This isn’t a paradox — if you know what you’re doing and you’re competent, spontaneity becomes its own skill.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

She’s an engaging storyteller, drawing us in with fascinating stories about the history of the written word in all its physical forms. Not All Readers Are Leaders, But Many Outstanding Leaders Are Readers John Coleman’s Harvard Business Review article on Managing Yourself is entitled “For Those Who Want to Lead, Read.”

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