“Above all, good leaders are open. They go up, down, and around their organization to reach people. They don't stick to the established channels. They're informal. They're straight with people. They make a religion out of being accessible. They never get bored telling their story.” PeopleStoriesReligionLeaderOrganizationDown AndSticksBoredGood Leader Author:Jack Welch
“Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.” StoriesValuesLeader Author:Walt Disney
“Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.” StoriesLeadershipPowerfulLeaderToolsMost Powerful Author:Howard Gardner
“I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.” PeopleWantWritingDifferentStoriesRememberResultsCompanyLeaderChaptersGreat LeaderGood Leader Author:Carlos Ghosn
“Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.” PeopleArtStoriesTodayJesusLeaderBoysSpecialConditionsWorshipSickDelightDareInstanceFeaturesFlatsPensShort StoryBowsDispositionIdenticalUnnaturalRepresenting Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.” TwoStoriesTogetherLastsPoliticalHousePartyCommonLeaderEnemyGroupsWeekMetsTerroristRadicalReportsWorking TogetherAlsFarmsSyriaPolitical PartiesIsisCommon EnemyTerrorist Groups Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The problem facing humanity today is not a political problem; it's not a financial problem; it's not a military problem. It's obviously a spiritual problem. That is, it has to do with what we believe to be true about who we are, where we are, why we are where we are, and what are we doing on the Earth. What is the purpose of life itself? What we need right now are leaders or models, people who will stand up and not only help to write a cultural story, but help to model it in the way that they interact with each other.” PeopleWayNeedsWritingBelieveHelpingStoriesProblemTodayEarthSpiritualPoliticalPurposeHumanityLeaderMilitaryRight NowModelsFinancialBeing TrueWho We ArePurpose Of LifeWhat Is The Purpose Of LifeFinancial Problems Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHeartStoriesActionMovingLeaderSuccessfulClintonGreat LeaderNelsonReligion And Politics Author:Peter Guber
“It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.” PeopleTryingDoneStoriesWinningSidesLeaderDemocracyWonderfulRiskHonestyToughRanOld PeopleSpinningHeadlinesTough Things Author:Chris Patten
“I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.” IfsYearsBelieveChildrenStoriesUseProblemNextI BelieveSidesLeaderTeachPlansGenerationsSharePlanetsConflictMouthsToolsOur ChildrenCome UpHandleNext Generation Author:Barbara Coloroso
“Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.” PeopleWorldMadeStoriesPurposeLeaderImagineJourneyGainsThorough Author:Chinua Achebe
“It's all about respect; he's looking for respect from his buddies. In the last one he just wanted to hang out, to be part of the group, but this time he wants more from his friends. And without giving the story away, he finally gets something that he has been looking for when the mini sloths kidnap him and take him to their tribal area. He gets to be the Fire King and they worship him and there is an amazing scene with a "call and response" sequence in the style of Cab Callow [the legendary American jazz singer and band leader] between him and his audience.” WantGivingHas BeensStoriesWantedLastsLeaderAudienceFireGroupsStyleKingsSceneBandWorshipAreasJazzResponseSingersHanging OutSequenceBuddySlothLegendaryCab Author:John Leguizamo
“Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.” MomentsStoriesChanceDecisionLeaderSuccessfulRiskKeysSignificantConventionalBreakthroughDefiningTake A ChanceConventional WisdomDefining MomentsSuccessful Leaders Author:Larry Osborne
“I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.” EnoughStoriesPoliticalPayAttentionLeaderMilitaryCoreCorporateStorytellerTelling StoriesCompetenciesGreat Military Author:Bran Ferren
“Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.” PeopleIfsIdeasStoriesAbleValuesLinesLeaderHappenedAccomplishing Something Author:Noel Tichy