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Story Dash

Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most Valuable Business Stories... In Just a Few Hours
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Story Dash reveals storytelling as a vital leadership tool for driving engagement and action within organisations. Drawing on David Hutchens' decade of experience with Silicon Valley innovation teams and Fortune 100 leaders, the book offers a unique, rapid method to discover and craft your core narratives. It emphasises quick, strategic, and enjoyable storytelling techniques to communicate who you are, what you do, and why it matters, often within a single day.

The book guides readers to access their innate storytelling abilities, select impactful stories, and develop authentic leadership voices that resonate powerfully with teams and markets.
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Story Dash is ideal for business leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs seeking fast, effective storytelling methods to inspire and lead. It suits professionals wanting to enhance engagement and communication within fast-paced organisational environments.

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With this highly actionable book, leaders of all kinds will find it easier than ever to discover and develop their “narrative assets”—their value-holding stories

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Storytelling is humanity’s oldest way of connecting to others. But for businesses and managers, it can also be a powerful tool to help organisations grow and thrive.

A leader’s role is to create engagement and belief so that people will act. And there’s no more powerful way to grab attention, be remembered, and engage action than by telling stories—about who you are, what you do, and why you do it.

Today, “storytelling” is a hot topic in organisations, but most leaders still struggle to act upon it. How do we find and tell our stories quickly, in an environment of urgency where we can hardly pause to catch our breath? For more than a decade, Hutchens has tested his method of rapid and strategic story development with innovation teams in Silicon Valley, across global Fortune 100 leadership teams, and more. Hutchens has honed a unique process that is active, potent, and strategically focused... and also a lot of fun.

In Story Dash, Hutchens shares a repeatable process to find, develop, and deploy your “narrative assets”—that is, your urgent core stories that hold value. Even better, he will help you do it FAST; often in less than a day.

Story Dash will help you to:

  • Access your natural capacity for storytelling
  • Find your stories—and figure out which ones to tell
  • Build your narrative so it lands with unforgettable impact
  • Find your own voice of authentic leadership
  • Bring more of who you are to your teams and your markets

Fully illustrated and written in a clear, sharp voice, Story Dash shares the fastest way to find lots of stories that will create action around the work you care about most.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950665990

Publisher: BenBella Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Matt Holt Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

About the Author

David Hutchens has been exploring the intersection of narrative, leadership, and complex systems change for more than 20 years. A bestselling author, business writer and learning designer, he creates solutions for The Coca-Cola Company, PayPal, Wal-Mart, IBM, L’Oreal, The US Olympic Committee, and others. He speaks to organizations and thousands of leaders all around the world on the topic of storytelling as an organizational capacity. As an executive speechwriter, he has developed mission-critical messages for the CEOs of The Coca-Cola Company and the global Dentsu Advertising organization.

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