Storytelling

“Pull your superpowers out of your stories from your past, your present, and then eventually figure out how to apply them and transpose them to your future.”

How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey) · Donna Lichaw

“Everyone loves the word storytelling in business. It's a huge buzzword. They love to think of themselves as storytellers, but when they come to me, they don't really want to be storytellers. Because to be a storyteller means you have to separate yourself from the herd, and in their mind, that risks them getting picked off.”

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) · Matthew Dicks

“How many times have you gone to a conference, listened to someone speak, and by the time you're pulling into the driveway, you really can't remember anything that they said? Because that's what happens if we don't speak in story. Our minds are not designed to remember a pie chart or facts or statistics or platitudes or ideas that are not attached to imagery.”

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) · Matthew Dicks

“The risk you take if you're not telling stories is that you will be forgotten. 100%. You will be forgotten.”

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) · Matthew Dicks

“The editor, the writer, I'll just say it as plainly as possible. They don't care about you. They don't care about you. They care about their reader or their listener or their viewer. That's who they care about.”

How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine) · Jason Feifer

“A lot of people think that the only time you really need to present well is when you have a big stage talk and you make the big investment in the script. I'll tell you a dirty little secret. I can get my husband to do chores for me on the weekends with a real quick, what is, what could be new bliss.”

Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks · Nancy Duarte

“The ability to just have that contrast as a framework in your brain during a meeting, on a phone call, any moment of influence, like literally it works. It works in any format.”

Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks · Nancy Duarte

“People know I'll take a swag at data and pretend it's real. I had a president who took us a whack at that number in 2014, and he said at that time it was 225,000, and that was almost 10 years ago. So I can't even tell you, in 35 years we have thousands of projects.”

Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks · Nancy Duarte

“This structure really is about defining a movement, and that's very different from, 'Hey, I'm going to solve your problem.'”

The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin · Andy Raskin

“Getting promoted is way harder if you're not good at telling stories and rallying the team behind a shared goal. You usually achieve this through good storytelling techniques. I would consider it a bit of a career staller if you don't get to a decent level of storytelling and to a decent level of public speaking.”

How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People) · Petra Wille

“The art of storytelling, diagramming, so on, I think is so critical for basically any part of life. And this book, it's so thought-provoking on how to do it.”

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Shishir Mehrotra