How 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 clearly explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. <ul>
<li>Stephen Denning has won awards from Financial Times, The Innovation Book Club, and 800-CEO-READ</li> <li>
The book on leadership storytelling shows how successful leaders use stories to get their ideas across and spark enduring enthusiasm for change</li> <li>Stephen Denning offers a hands-on guide to unleash the power of the business narrative.</li> </ul>

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

Business & Money

Denning, Stephen

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

A radical new management model for twenty-first century leaders Organizations today face a crisis. The crisis is of long standing and its signs are widespread. Most proposals for improving management address one element of the crisis at the expense of the others. The principles described by award-winning author Stephen Denning simultaneously inspire high productivity, continuous innovation, deep job satisfaction and client delight. Denning puts forward a fundamentally different approach to management, with seven inter-locking principles of continuous innovation: focusing the entire organization on delighting clients; working in self-organizing teams; operating in client-driven iterations; delivering value to clients with each iteration; fostering radical transparency; nurturing continuous self-improvement and communicating interactively. In sum, the principles comprise a new mental model of management. <ul>
<li>Author outlines the basic seven principles of continuous innovation</li> <li>The book describes more than seventy supporting practices</li> <li>Denning offers a rethinking of management from first principles</li> </ul>
This book is written by the author of The Secret Language of Leadership―a Financial Times Selection in Best Books of 2007.

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations is the first book to teach storytelling as a powerful and formal discipline for organizational change and knowledge management. The book explains how organizations can use certain types of stories ("springboard" stories) to communicate new or envisioned strategies, structures, identities, goals, and values to employees, partners and even customers. Readers will learn techniques by which they can help their organizations become more unified, responsive, and intelligent. Storytelling is a management technique championed by gurus including Peter Senge, Tom Peters and Larry Prusak. Now Stephen Denning, an innovator in the new discipline of organizational storytelling, teaches how to use stories to address challenges fundamental to success in today's information economy. * Provides innovative and powerful tools which can effect organizational change * Helps organizations share knowledge critical to success in the information economy * First book on a major emerging trend in organizational change and K.M.

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

Routledge

Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management

This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM. Storytelling in Organizations lays out for the first time why narrative and storytelling should be part of the mainstream of organizational and management thinking. This case has not been made before. The tone of the book is also unique. The engagingly personal and idiosyncratic tone comes from a set of presentations made at a Smithsonian symposium on storytelling in April 2001. Reading it is as stimulating as spending an evening with Larry Prusak or John Seely Brown. The prose is probing, playful, provocative, insightful and sometime profound. It combines the liveliness and freshness of spoken English with the legibility of a ready-friendly text. Interviews will all the authors done in 2004 add a new dimension to the material, allowing the authors to reflect on their ideas and clarify points or highlight ideas that may have changed or deepened over time. * Brings together well-known thought leaders on the importance of narrative and storytelling for organizational success * The book's easy to read, engaging style of storytelling makes you feel part of the conversation * Only book that includes personal stories and perspectives from Larry Prusak and John Seely Brown

Storytelling in Organizations

Seely Brown, John

Prusak, Laurence

Groh, Katalina

Business Culture

Take a satirical scamper through organizational life in the midst of changing times, brought to you by master storyteller and former World Bank executive Steve Denning. With wisdom and a healthy dose of wit, Denning introduces a cast of furry characters who together learn the fine art of change through storytelling in their quest to overcome obstacles, generate enthusiasm and teamwork, share knowledge, and ultimately lead their company into a new era of success and significance. Through the stories of Squirrel Inc., readers will learn that the ability to tell the right story at the right time can determine the outcome of any major change effort. In each chapter Denning's squirrels learn to use storytelling to address leadership challenges: 
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<li> How to bring about change </li> <li> How to communicate who you are </li> <li> How to transmit values </li> <li> How to foster collaboration </li> <li> How to stop rumors </li> <li> How to share knowledge </li> <li> How to lead your organization into the future </li> </ul>

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership Through Storytelling

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, A Leader’s Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization “stunningly vulnerable” to a new idea.

The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence―an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. The book’s lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips are essential reading for CEOs, managers, change agents, marketers, salespersons, brand managers, politicians, teachers, parents―anyone who is setting out to the change the world.

The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative

An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement has helped companies both large and small learn to connect everyone and everything . . . all the time.With rapidly evolving consumer needs and technology that is that is being updated quicker than ever before, businesses are recognizing how vitally essential it is adapt. And adapt quickly. The Agile movement enables a team, unit, or enterprise to nimbly acclimate and upgrade products and services to meet these constantly changing needs.Filled with examples from every sector, The Age of Agile helps readers:• Master the three laws of Agile Management (team, customer, network)• Embrace the new mindset• Overcome constraints• Employ meaningful metrics• Make the entire organization Agile• And more!Companies don’t need to be born Agile. With the groundbreaking formulas laid out in this book, even global giants can learn to act entrepreneurially. Your company’s future may depend on it!

The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done

AMACOM

This Element examines the current crisis of capitalism's legitimacy and concludes that it derives principally from business pursuing an aberration of capitalism known as shareholder capitalism, in which firms sought to maximize shareholder value as reflected in the current share price, at the expense of all other stakeholders and society. Shareholder capitalism began in the 1970s and was renounced by the Business Roundtable in 2019, but continues behind a façade of stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is the most widely cited form of capitalism today, but it is incoherent as a practical guide to action for an entire firm. This Element concludes that a recent evolution of capitalism--customer capitalism--which gives primacy to co-creating value for customers and users, enables firms to master the challenges of the digital age, shower benefits on society, and meet the needs of all the stakeholders.

Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism)

Economics

Cambridge University Press

The corporation was a timely emergent phenomenon of the capitalist system. Under entrepreneurial ownership with customer value creation goals, corporations introduced new products and services, new capital structures and new management processes capable of improving customer experiences in every facet of their lives. After entrepreneurship, the organizational model transitioned to managerial capitalism, and from there into command-and-control and central planning. Then came further transition into the era of financialization, where shareholder value replaced customer value as the purpose of the corporation. Managers diverted resources to their own enrichment as well as that of shareholders, at the expense of investment in future innovation. Capitalism's reputation has become tarnished and its purpose distorted. This Element ends with the promise of another emergent era, via the corporations of the digital age.

Aberrant Capitalism: The Decay and Revival of Customer Capitalism (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism)

Hastings, Hunter

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The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations

Storytelling in Organizations

Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership Through Storytelling

The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative

The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative

The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done

Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism)

Aberrant Capitalism: The Decay and Revival of Customer Capitalism (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism)