Steve Denning
Steve Denning, organizational storyteller extraordinaire,
is the author of the acclaimed books, The
Secret Language of Leadership and The
Leader's Guide to Storytelling
Articles by this Author
Why Jack Welch is wrong about winning
- By Steve Denning
- Published 07/14/2008
- Leadership
- Unrated
Transformational leadership concerns activities that are pursued primarily
for their own sake, not merely for the sake of instrumental benefits
such as money, prestige, prizes, or the status of being considered a
winner. If at any point, instrumental benefits become the principal
goal of the activity, then the chances of its being the subject of sustained
enthusiastic commitment are reduced, if not eliminated.
Using Phrases That Are Pure Magic
- By Steve Denning
- Published 07/14/2008
- Public Speaking
- Unrated
A pitfall that I see many people fall into when they begin using storytelling in organizations is what they do after they have told their story.Avoiding Five Pitfalls in Storytelling
- By Steve Denning
- Published 07/14/2008
- Public Speaking
- Unrated
A colleague asked me recently what to do about the risk of distortion in stories. “We know,” he said, “ how that happens in the course of human conversation. Remember the famous ‘telephone game’, aka Chinese whispers? A tells something to B, who passes it on to C, who tells D, who informs E. E finally tells A what s/he has heard and A does not recognize his/her own beginning message. This is especially true if the message has some complexity/ depth/opinion to it. What can you do about that?”
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