Storytelling at Work is a groundbreaking book about the power of personal storytelling to spark insight, meaning, and innovation – especially in the modern day workplace where data and information have too often supplanted knowledge and wisdom. The author of the book, Mitch Ditkoff, has been an “innovation provocateur” to some of the world’s most forward thinking organizations since 1987 and has come to realize that the single most effective way to jump start wisdom in the workplace is via the sharing of well told stories – first person “moments of truth” that have embedded within them the DNA of what it really takes to be a positive force for change, on or off the job. Part One of Storytelling at Work includes 37 of the author’s own stories from the front lines of business, both as the Co-Founder of Idea Champions – a leading innovation consultancy – and earlier in his life, as a young entrepreneur trying to find his way in the world. The stories are entertaining, evocative, and mind opening. Each one is followed by a brief reflection – a simple way for readers to apply the message of the story to their own lives. Part Two of the book is a collection of 16 essays on the art and science of storytelling, a thought provoking exploration of why stories are such a powerful communication medium and how the reader can make best use of stories to have the most possible positive impact on others. "I truly LOVE this book! Mitch Ditkoff has delivered a modern classic on how to communicate with wisdom. Kudos!" —Rowan Gibson, author of The Four Lenses of Innovation "Storytelling at Work is filled with Eureka moments that will spark your creativity and ignite your motivation. Original and deeply insightful!” —Marshall Goldsmith, author of Triggers, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller “Mitch Ditkoff’s powerfully written book shows us how storytelling, well done, humanizes the world of work and helps us tune into the deep well of timeless wisdom within.” —Tim Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis

Storytelling at Work: How Moments of Truth on the Job Reveal the Real Business of Life

Business & Money

Ditkoff, Mitch

Skills

Idea Champions

If you are wondering why I chose to call my book: STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION: The Ultimate Uprising of Insight, Wisdom, and Love - a title some people might think is incendiary, inflated, or overly dramatic, here's why: We need a revolution. We do. But the revolution I'm inviting you to join is not a political one. It has nothing to do with a change of government, laws, or social structures. It has to do with a change of mind and a change of heart and a change in the way we communicate with each other.
It doesn't take a genius to recognize that the collective narrative occupying the airways these days is a dark one - not all that surprising when you consider the "if it bleeds, it leads" mindset of the media: But bad news is not the only thing worth reporting. Indeed, there is another kind of story that also needs to be communicated - one that rarely makes it to the evening news. And that story is revolutionary - or could be - the story of how each and every one of us can be a broadcast station of insight, wisdom, and love. That's what STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION is about - a grassroots Field Guide for anyone wanting to become a positive force for change.

Storytelling for the Revolution: The Ultimate Uprising of Insight, Wisdom, and Love

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Unspoken Word: Love Longing & Letting Go is a "best of" collection of Mitch Ditkoff's poetry - his fourth book in an ongoing series. His poems are a kind of inner tuning fork, giving voice to the human quest for the divine, as well as the existential gap between our highest aspirations and the seeming mundane realities of daily life. Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, and Rilke, Ditkoff's expressions of the heart serve as a bridge between two worlds - the timeless world of ecstatic experience and the all-too-common 9 to 5. Human beings tend to live their lives between these two polls, often gravitating to one over the other. What Ditkoff attempts to do in his poetry is honor all of it. To him, it's all holy, all sacred, all divine - even if it doesn't always seem that way. As he notes in The Only Pilgrimage Required: "Here's a little secret: every breath you take is a prayer, 22,000 times a day it rises, unannounced, then returns to who knows where, you do not need to kneel, you do not need to speak, and the only pilgrimage required is the one from head to heart, the one all people seek."

Unspoken Word: Love, Longing & Letting Go

Religion & Spirituality

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