Annette Simmons

The Power of Storytelling: 10 Authoritative Perspectives

September 12, 2012

My guess (only a guess) is that whenever a list of the greatest storytellers throughout history is compiled, Charles Dickens would be among those included.  The creative talents of other novelists (notably Balzac and Dostoevsky) are probably ranked higher but I think Dickens’ skills with setting a…

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Squirrel Inc.: A book review by Bob Morris

September 22, 2011

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling Stephen Denning Josey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2004) Nuts R Us Think about it. Who are among the greatest storytellers throughout history? My own list includes Homer, Plato, Chaucer, Aesop, Jesus, Dante, Boccaccio, the…

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Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: A book review by Bob Morris

August 24, 2011

Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact Annette Simmons AMACOM (2007) I am among those who have praised Annette Simons’ previously published The Story Factor and are thus delighted…

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The Story Factor : A book review by Bob Morris

August 24, 2011

The Story Factor (2nd Revised Edition) Annette Simmons Basic Books (2006) As Simmons explains in her Introduction, “This book [shares] what I have learned over the last eight years about story and about the power of story to persuade and influence.…

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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A book review by Bob Morris

July 18, 2011

Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors Patrick Lencioni Jossey-Bass (2006) Here’s the situation. Jude Cousins is a talented, energetic, and ambitious young marketing executive at Hatch Technology who, with…

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Guy Kawasaki on how to overcome resistance to project launches

February 16, 2011

In his latest book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Habits, Minds, and Actions (to be published by Portfolio/Penguin on March 8 2011), he offers a wealth of practical advice on how best to achieve especially important strategic objectives. For example, how…

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The power of a well-told story

January 31, 2011

Steve Denning, Annette Simmons, and Doug Lipman have written brilliant books on the subject of storytelling; more specifically, about how to write an effective business narrative. It is worth noting that CBS’s 60 Minutes is the longest running prime-time television show…

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