The Leader's Guide To Storytelling: Mastering The Art And Discipline Of Business Narrative

The Leader's Guide To Storytelling: Mastering The Art And Discipline Of Business NarrativeHow leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and action This revised and updated edition of the best selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how to techniques, this book

This revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time.

• Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800-CEO-READ
• The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change
• Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Stephen Denning was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University. After doing a post-graduate law degree at Oxford University, he joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in various management capacities, including Program Director of Knowledge Management from 1996-2000.

He is the author of eight books, including The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century, which is being published by Jossey-Bass in October 2010.

His book, The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative, was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2007.

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, was named in 2005 by the Innovation Network as one of the twelve most important books on innovation in the past several years.