The Leader's Guide to Storytelling

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by Stephen Denning


  Hurd, Mark

  Hyperlinking transcribed stories

  I

  “I Have a Dream” (King speech)

  IBM: Institute of Knowledge Management of; Lou Gerstner's compelling future stories of; Lou Gerstner's story of Lotus purchase by; Lou Gerstner's story setting expectations; making the case for change at; narrative transmitting values at; PC division (1980s) of; R&D (research & development) of; stories passing on corporate culture at; transformation under Gerstner's leadership

  Identity stories: decide your life purpose; don't overstate your good qualities; exploit fractal nature of identity stories; focus story on turning point in your life; how to tell; use humor to brighten your story; use positive tone; reveal who you are implicitly through; template for creating; told with context; where to tell

  Impoverished management

  Inauthentic storytelling

  Infant delivery/bubbles story

  Infant pneumopericardium story

  Informal statements of intention

  Innovation: creating CIO (chief innovation officer) to promote; creating safe environment for; using data-driven strategic; disruptive; funding many projects for innovation; future storytelling role in; open source; Roger Martin on design of business and; seven principles of continuous; sustaining; systems thinking, learning organization, and. See also Change; Transformational change

  Innovation paradox: examining possible solutions for; solving the; why current approaches don't solve the

  Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy (Amidon)

  “The Innovation War” (von Braun)

  The Innovator's Solution (Christensen and Raynor)

  Institute of Knowledge Management (IBM)

  Interactive leaders: ability to connect; characteristics of; concept of conversation used by; participation component of; passion of; roles of. See also Leaders

  Interactive leadership: avoiding “Apollo run amok,”; beauty appreciated by effective; concept of conversation used by; connection through; fitting the modern need for; lack of universal appeal of; participation component of; passion of; relationship to other leadership theories; relatively free of ego; understanding possibility of; understanding the role of. See also Leadership; Transformational leadership

  Internal story aspects

  International Storytelling Center (Tennessee)

  J

  JetBlue story

  Jobs, Steve

  Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol crisis (1982)

  K

  Kahan, Seth

  Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

  Katz, Robert

  Katzenbach, J.

  Kelleher, Herb

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerry, John

  Khobar Towers bombing (1996)

  Kim, W. Chan

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Klein, Gary: drawing on narrative fragments for knowledge sharing; drawing on storytelling knowledge of; on infant with pneumopericardium story; on keeping future stories simple; on official versus underground know-how; on positive impact of infant delivery/bubbles story; on value of stories

  Knowledge: how to share sensitive; including explanation of; official versus underground know-how; role of trust in; template for saving

  Knowledge management: World Bank goals regarding; World Bank's springboard story to achieve

  Knowledge-sharing narrative: anomalies focus of; capturing the stories shared in; Car Talk (radio show) use of; context included in the; creating context for; creating interesting events in the; description of; drawing on narrative fragments to create the; using groups to accelerate; helplessness; including explanation as part of the; leveling and sharpening of experience during; to make sense of events; pneumopericardium in infant; role playing during the; scapegoat; stalking sensitive knowledge through; teasing out the; template for saving knowledge of departing staff; trust role in; victim; Xerox E053 error message as; Xerox's Eureka program use of. See also Experience

  Kouzes, Jim

  Krebs, Valdis

  Kuhn, Thomas

  L

  Lachenauer, Rob

  Laggards

  Laliberté, Guy

  Landor Associates

  Laura Ashley

  Le Corbusier

  Leaders: being forward-looking characteristic of; using narrative to become interactive; storytelling as facilitating new kind of. See also Interactive leaders

  The Leader's Guide to Radical Management (Denning)

  The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (Denning)

  Leadership: intersection of storytelling and; narrative as the emerging discipline of; as performance art; storytelling as tool of; as task of persuasion. See also Interactive leadership; Management; Transformational leadership

  Leadership (Burns)

  The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner)

  The Leadership Engine (Tichy)

  Leadership in Organizations (Yukl)

  Leadership theories: lack of clarity on transformational leadership by; leadership as motivation; leadership as situational; leadership as skill; leadership as style; leadership as trait; leadership as transformation

  Leading into the future. See Vision narrative

  Leading Minds (Gardner)

  Leading people to future narrative. See Vision narrative

  Leading Teams (Hackman)

  Learning organization

  Lewinsky, Monica

  Life story. See Identity stories

  Lindaman, Edward

  Lipman, Doug

  Listeners: linking future story to current mind-set of; making sure they are listening. See also Audience

  Listening. See also Communication

  Lively delivery

  Loehr, Jim

  Longitude (Sobel)

  Loyalty

  Luthi, Max

  M

  McCloskey, Deidre

  McDermott, R.

  MacIntyre, Alisdair

  McNamara, Robert

  Made to Stick (Heath and Heath)

  Magliozzi, Ray

  Magliozzi, Tom

  Major, John

  Management: high-performance teams; inability to control flow of stories; lack of leadership success by current; leadership styles of; narrative uncovering misdirection by; radical transparency/continuous self-improvement fostered by; supply chain. See also Firms; Leadership

  Mandela, Nelson

  Maoist Great Leap Forward

  Marketing: four Ps of; 20th century marketing model; 21st century marketing model

  Martin, Roger

  Mauborgne, Renén

  Mean-spirited humor

  Medtronic

  Mehrabian, Albert

  Merck

  Mergers & acquisition

  Metamorphoses (Ovid)

  Microsoft

  Middle-of-the-road management

  Minimalist storytelling: motivating others to action through; transmitting values narrative using

  Mintzberg, Henry

  More, Sir Thomas

  Motivating action narrative: avoiding main pitfalls; description of; igniting action through springboard story; incorporating springboard story into presentation; springboard story elements for; springboard story template for

  “Motrin Moms” protest movement (2008)

  Mouton, J. S.

  Murray, Alan

  Myers-Briggs Type indicator

  N

  Narrative: becoming an interactive leader using; definition of; as emerging leadership discipline; examining the power of; storytelling as marriage of analysis and; transforming your organization using. See also Story/stories

  Narrative patterns: branding your company; building trust by communicating who your are; creating integrated tapestry of; fostering collaboration; leading people into the future; motivating others by sparking actions; sharing knowledge; taming the grapevine/neutralizing gossip; transmitting organizational values

  Narrative theory

  National Storytelling Network

 
Nature of Managerial Work (Mintzberg)

  Nayar, Vineet

  “Near-death” experiences

  Negative stories: future stories which are; knowledge sharing through; power of positive and

  Networks: collaboration patterns of; community component of some; comparing communities to; taxonomy of collaboration in

  New Yorker magazine

  Nicole (Renault ad series)

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nike sweatshop labor scandal

  9/11 Commission report

  Nisbett, Robert

  Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs): labor campaigns by; organization ethical values promoted by

  O

  Odysseus

  Odyssey (Homer)

  On Values and Values (Smith)

  OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

  Open source innovation

  Operational vs. espoused values

  Optimistic stories

  Organization brand: firm's internal communication about; narrative as foundation of; narrative pattern for creating; 20th century marketing model to create; 21st century marketing model to create. See also Branding narrative; Firms

  Organization values: aligning structure with; basing brand narrative on; distinguishing different types of; distinguishing operational from espoused; distinguishing personal from corporate; establishing through action; Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol crisis as example of; narrative for transmitting; providing positive incentives for implementing; taking action to reestablish; Tyco stories on rebuilding their. See also Corporate culture; Firms; Values

  Organizations: bigness and consistency tendency of; nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). See also Firms

  Orr, Julian

  Overt and agreed stories

  Overt and contested stories

  Ovid

  Oz, Amos

  P

  Pakistan springboard story

  Parables: Jesus Christ's parable of the talents; timeless but believable; transmitting values through

  Passion: of interactive leaders; as 21st century marketing model driver

  Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow (Conley)

  Pearson, Carol

  Perception: holistic; tunnel-vision style of

  Personal integrity

  Personal vs. corporate values

  Persuasion: leadership as task of; storytelling role in; U.S. gross national product (GNP) constituted by

  Pharmaceutical R&D (research & development)

  Pillmore, Eric

  Piñeiro, E.

  Pinkerton, J. G. “Paw-Paw,”

  Pitched battles: bringing the big guns for; positive stories to help win; providing counterstories to supporters during; using satire during; stating the rational case for change; steps for winning; structural countermeasures during; three main groups involved in

  Place and date

  Planning of work

  Plans (future story)

  Poetics (Aristotle)

  “Poorly told” story

  Porras, Jerry

  Positive stories: compelling future stories as being; infant delivery/bubbles; infant pneumopericardium; pitched battle over change and use of; power of negative and

  Positive tone

  Posner, Barry

  The Power of Story (Loehr)

  PowerPoint

  Pragmatists values

  Premortems

  Preparation: being rehearsed but spontaneous; choosing shape of your story; process of storytelling

  Presentation: balancing structure and spontaneity of; incorporating springboard story into entire; keeping it spontaneous. See also Audience

  Procter & Gamble (P&G)

  Product stories

  Protagonists: pick one similar to the audience; pick single individual as the

  Prusak, Larry

  Q

  Quest Diagnostics

  Quinn, Robert

  R

  Radical transparency

  Raynor, Michael

  Rehearsal

  Renault Clio

  Repair stories: Car Talk (radio show); Xerox E053 error message

  Research & development (R&D): funding many innovation projects through; open innovation through

  “Researchers” category

  Resisters to change

  Ridicule: killing rumors using; pitched battle over change and use of

  Ringling Bros

  Robber barons values

  Roddick, Anita

  Role playing: developing realistic future story using; knowledge-sharing story use of

  Rumor mill. See Taming the grapevine narrative

  S

  Satire: killing rumors using; pitched battle over change and use of

  Saturn division (GM)

  Saudi National Guard bombing (1995)

  Scapegoat stories

  Scenarios

  Schein, Edgar

  Schrage, Michael

  Schultz, Howard

  Searls, Doc

  The Secret Language of Leadership (Denning)

  Self-deprecatory humor

  Self-organizing teams

  Senge, Peter

  Sensitive knowledge-sharing narrative

  Services stories

  Seven Habits of Highly Successful People (Covey)

  Shakespeare, William

  Sharing-knowledge narrative. See Knowledge-sharing narrative

  Shell Oil

  Silver, Spence

  Simmons, Annette

  Sinegal, James

  Six Sigma program

  Sixth discipline

  Slater, Steven

  Smith, Douglas

  “Snow White” (fairy story)

  Snowden, Dave

  Snyder, W.

  Sobel, Dava

  Social media: customer stories spread through; Facebook; Flickr; organizational branding through; people with people communication using; Twitter; YouTube. See also Communication

  Social psychology studies

  Solidarity

  Sources of Power (Klein)

  South African apartheid

  Southwest Airlines

  Soviet collectivization

  Sparking actions narrative. See Motivating action narrative

  Speech communications research

  Spontaneity: balancing structure and; rehearsal but keeping

  Spring, C.

  The Springboard (Denning)

  Springboard stories: avoiding main pitfalls; characteristics and elements of; comparing future stories to; incorporating into presentation; role of the; template for crafting; used as tool; World Bank's Pakistan

  Springboard story elements: find an example; fully embody the change idea; give the data and place; have a clear and worthwhile purpose; have a happy ending; link change idea to the story; pick protagonist who is similar to the audience; pick a single individual as story's protagonist; spell out the alternative; strip out unnecessary detail; tell a story that is authentically true

  Springboard story pitfalls: don't use negative to spark enthusiasm; embody the right idea; find an uplifting ending; how to deal with bad news; make sure your listeners are listening

 

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