Storytelling as a functional business art
I read What's Your Story? Storytelling to move markets, audiences, people, and brands by Ryan Mathews and Watts Wacker with ...
Storytelling — 3
I've been working hard lately on my new book, tentatively entitled Being Real: The Four Steps to Authentic Communication, and ...
Storytelling — 2
The next thing to think about when telling a story is structure. And here again you've heard some pretty useless ...
Storytelling — 1
I'm going to write a few blogs on storytelling, because it's so often talked about and so rarely gotten right. ...
Storytelling
A lot of ink and electrons have been spilled (if that's the word) on storytelling. Surprisingly little of it is ...
Using Humor in Speeches, and Other Bad Advice
There are a few basic rules that many people seem to have stuck in their minds about public speaking: Tell-'em-what-you're-going-to-say,-say-it,-tell-'em-what-you-said; ...
Who is the hero of a speech?
Most of us are accustomed, whether we acknowledge it or not, to cast ourselves in the role of hero of ...
Take your audience on a quest
Life is a quest, and so is a good speech. Quests are something we understand; they are deeply imbedded in ...
