Annual Reports: Get Me Rewrite!
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/24/rftf.html
How one design firm -- Cahan & Associates -- adds creativity to business's most predictable document: the annual report.
Company of Friends Roadshow
http://www.fastcompany.com/roadshow
Once a year, I embark on a month-plus search for the New Economy in part of the world. In 1999, I explored nine southern states. Last year I hit about 12 European countries. This fall, I'll connect the Americas by traveling through British Columbia, Canada; the west coast of the United States; and Mexico. Along the way, I'll stay with readers of Fast Company magazine, visit fast companies, gather with local cells of our readers' network, and publish daily diary updates on the Web.
Every Leader Tells a Story
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/15/rftf.html
Forget bullet points and slide shows. The best leaders use stories to answer three simple questions: Who am I? Who are we? Where are we going?
How the Best Storytellers Win
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/15/storytellers.html
Douglas Adams, one of the thought leaders in the fantasy business, offers five lessons on how storytellers use their craft to see farther, dream bigger, and engage more people.
How to Go Public When You Go Public
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/09/gopublic.html
Jerry Weissman teaches high-tech stars such as Cisco, Intuit, Yahoo! how to talk to money. It's a lesson worth listening to. An IPO road show is all about selling. And what is selling but good storytelling? There's only one story an IPO audience wants to hear: Why is your company an attractive investment opportunity?
It's Story Time at Monster Board
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/16/minm.html
How one fast company incorporates stories in to its team meetings - and how the company uses stories to learn.
Organization Story and Storytelling: A Critical Review
http://newton.uor.edu/FacultyFolder/MBoyce/5CRITICA.HTM
Mary Boyle, a management and business professor at University of Redlands in California, examines the stories told in organizations and how researchers and organizational development practitioners can use them to understand and intervene in the cultures of an organization. Boyle looks at key studies of organizational story and storytelling and takes on challenges to the application of story work within organizations.
Storytelling in Purposeful Communities
http://www.bigbangworkshops.com/html/16__storytelling_in_purposeful_comm...
This transcript of an online workshop considers how member of online communities of practice - and people working in online work spaces - use storytelling to re-tell creation myths, fireside histories, and stories that give the community's members a collective sense of self and belonging. Participants discuss how to incorporate stories at work - and how not to.
Storytelling: The Power of Listening
http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/ddb/melberg.html
Karin Melberg Schwier discusses storytelling in the workplace, concentrating on human services work and the many-to-many character of stories. Schwier also explores how stories can help develop and support work with purpose. "Simply hearing and telling the stories of human experience, positive and negative, ordinary and extraordinary, reminds human service workers that the heart of their work is the people for whom they work," she says.
Storytelling: Your Best Sales Tool in the Wholesale Market
http://sunshineartist.com/magazine/storytell.htm
Tracy Beckman explores how stories about the background of and creative process behind arts and crafts items can affect sales. "One aspect about craft exhibitors that has always fascinated me is the story behind every product," Beckman says. "People like to buy items that can be appreciated for more than face value."
What's Your Story?
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/21/rftf.html
Fast Company contributing editor Dan Pink went to the 1998 Digital Storytelling Bootcamp and Festival. This is his story.
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