Power Stories

Author : Valerie Khoo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118387511

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Power Stories by Valerie Khoo Pdf

Learn to tell stories that have the power to inspire, motivate, and sell Storytelling in business is a skill that's rarely taught—and often forgotten. But it gives those who get it right the power to inspire and engage people more than any pie chart or spreadsheet ever will. Stories foster a deeply human connection, and Power Stories: The 8 Stories You Must Tell to Build an Epic Business gives readers the skills they need to master this lost art to make sales and seal deals. Whether it's in person or online, storytelling is an influential and persuasive tool. This book reveals how to discover the stories sitting under your nose and harness them for your business. From power stories readers need to know to how to turn prospects into customers, and customers into raving fans, the book covers exactly how and when to employ the power of storytelling, and is packed with proven strategies and real-life examples that bring the key concepts to life. Explains why storytelling is the ultimate tool for business success, revealing the 8 stories that any professional needs to be able to tell Includes proven strategies, tools, and techniques for mastering the lost art of storytelling in the business world, including the use of online tools and platforms Features real-life examples of businesses and entrepreneurs from around the world who have used storytelling to grow and thrive Written by Valerie Khoo, a respected small business commentator and successful entrepreneur, Power Stories gives professionals everywhere the tools they need to craft and tell great stories to create a competitive advantage.

Author : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816525501

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The Power of Horses and Other Stories by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Pdf

The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-LynnÕs people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor. In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota country, Joseph grieves that the body of his middle son will never be returned to his native shores from the distant World War I battlefields where he was killed; family members gather to bury their father and barely survive their own weaknesses and bickering; a grandmother takes her grandchild for a walk and imparts to the child some of the old wisdom of times past; a whining hound dogÑprimordial to the DakotaÑcompetes unwittingly with Reverend TilestonÕs efforts to bring the word of the Christian God to a tight-knit family, and wins; Magpie is a poet but is also on parole, and just as his friends have begun to rethink the finality of justice, he is ÒaccidentallyÓ shot and killed in the white manÕs jail. Cook-Lynn writes unsparingly yet compassionately of reservation life in the last century. In each of these gemlike stories she reveals something of the mystery and essential toughness of the Dakota people.

Author : Rob Biesenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991081420

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Unleash the Power of Storytelling by Rob Biesenbach Pdf

Author : Disney Book Group
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368066792

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5-Minute Girl Power Stories by Disney Book Group Pdf

Read along with Disney! Follow along with word-for-word narration and join your favorite Disney and Pixar girls as they embark on new adventures. Investigate a toy case with Officer McDimples, play hide-and-seek with Moana, enjoy a day out with Helen Parr, and much more! Each story in this collection is ideal for reading aloud in just five minutes—a perfect fit for bedtime, story time, or any time!

Author : Annette Simmons
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814400845

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Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins by Annette Simmons Pdf

Stories have tremendous power. They can persuade, promote empathy, and provoke action. Better than any other communication tool, stories explain who you are, what you want...and why it matters. In presentations, department meetings, over lunch-any place you make a case for new customers, more business, or your next big idea-you'll have greater impact if you have a compelling story to relate. Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins will teach you to narrate personal experiences as well as borrowed stories in a way that demonstrates authenticity, builds emotional connections, inspires perseverance, and stimulates the imagination. Fully updated and more practical than ever, the second edition reveals how to use storytelling to: Capture attention * Motivate listeners * Gain trust * Strengthen your argument * Sway decisions * Demonstrate authenticity and encourage transparency * Spark innovation * Manage uncertainty * And more Complete with examples, a proven storytelling process and techniques, innovative applications, and a new appendix on teaching storytelling, Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins hands you the tools you need to get your message across-and connect successfully with any audience.

Author : Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler,Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith
Publisher : Exile Book of Anthology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1550968416

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Bawaajigan by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler,Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith Pdf

"Dreams play a powerful role in Indigenous culture, serving as warning, insight, guidance, solace, or hope. Bawaajigan - an Anishinaabemowin word for dream or vision - is a collection of powerful literary short fiction by Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. Stories about the connection between the spirit world and everyday life and the rest of the cosmos; urban-fantasy and high-fantasy worlds; alternative histories, and alternative realities; brushes with the supernatural, the prophetic, the hallucinatory, and the surreal. Among these themes we find stories ranging from the gritty, the gothic, the comedic, and the heart-wrenchingly tragic: a tale about the state of sleep-deprivation that conjures an uncertainty as to where dream ends and reality begins; the ominous tension of television static that conjures a certainty of something terrible about to happen; encounters with spirit guides, and spirit enemies; confrontations with ghosts haunting residential school hallways, and ghosts looking on from the afterlife; and with concepts based on Ouija boards, bead-dreamers, Haudenosaunee wizards, talking eagles, giant snakes, sacred white buffalo calves, spider's silk, a burnt and blood-stained diary, longings for what could-have-been, worm holes fallen through reality, poppy-induced deliriums, imaginary friends, and knowledge revealed. Unifying everything: these are stories about the strength and power of dreams."--

Author : Kate Farrell
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781642501988

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Story Power by Kate Farrell Pdf

A straightforward guide to creating a great story that keeps your audience riveted. The art of telling stories has been around as long as humans. And in today’s noisy, techy, automated world, storytelling is not only prevalent?it’s vital. Whether you're interested in enlivening verbal communication, building your business brand, making presentations, sharing family wisdom, or performing on stage, Story Power shows you how to make use of a good story. Telling stories is the most effective verbal communication?if you know how to use it. Story Power provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories alongside effective tips for telling them in any setting. Plus, this book models stories with unique storytelling examples, exercises, and prompts, as well as storytelling techniques for delivery in a spontaneous, authentic style. Story Power is an engaging, lively guide to the art of telling stories from author and librarian Kate Farrell, a seasoned storyteller and founder of the Word Weaving Storytelling Project. In Story Power, more than twenty skillful contributors with a range of diverse voices share their secrets to creating, crafting, and telling tales. In this book discover: How to share your own coming-of-age stories and family folklore The importance of a personal branding story and storytelling marketing Seven Steps to Storytelling, along with helpful tools, organizers, and media options With a foreword by New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Susan Wittig Albert Praise for Story Power “You can read a lot of books that tell you how to tell a story. Unlike them, Story Power illustrates the art, with twenty-one diverse voices and fascinating tales that entertain as you learn how to create and craft personal stories of all types.” —Nina Amir, bestselling author of How to Blog a Book, The Author Training Manual, and Creative Visualization for Writers “Mining her own experiences, Farrell offers small narrative gems alongside craft tips, commentary, and writing samples from an impressive list of acclaimed writers. Learn travel writing from Lisa Alpine, for example, or keys to crafting adventure stories from Mary Mackey, or personal branding from Marissa Moss . . . . Engaging and accessible, Story Power will help you jump-start and sustain your writing practice.” —Mary Volmer, author of Reliance, Illinois

Author : Random House
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984894908

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Nickelodeon 5-Minute Girl-Power Stories (Nickelodeon) by Random House Pdf

Each of the nine stories in this collection feature favorite Nickelodeon girl characters and can be read aloud in five minutes! Join your favorite Nickelodeon girls in nine exciting stories! Readers ages 3 to 7 will love this hardcover collection featuring characters from fan-favorite shows PAW Patrol, Nella the Princess Knight, and Sunny Day. Each story can be read aloud in five minutes or less, making this collection perfect for bedtime--or any time!

Author : Carmen Blyth,Teresa K. Aslanian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811692871

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Children and the Power of Stories by Carmen Blyth,Teresa K. Aslanian Pdf

This book explores how stretching stories through posthuman and autoethnographic perspectives can produce new stories that decolon(ial)ize traditional thinking and approaches to Early Childhood Education (ECE). It demonstrates how stories can provide a different way of knowing, and a way of knowing differently: a way of decolon(ial)izing current discourses of early childhood education within educational institutions. The book uses research and practice in ECE to act as a canvas, a context with which to explore how autoethnography can become other when viewed through a posthumanist lens. As a consequence the chapters and stories within allow for an interplay between the posthumanist and the autoethnographic, an interplay that allows for a very specific type of meaning to emerge; a meaning that traffics in numerous and disruptive possibilities rather than settled certainties. In so doing, authors rethink and perturb the notion of child-centered approaches to knowing, be(com)ing, and doing within the Early Childhood Education context.

Author : Vanessa Chase Lockshin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Fund raising
ISBN : 0995089302

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The Storytelling Non-Profit by Vanessa Chase Lockshin Pdf

"The Storytelling Non-Profit is a portable consultant for fundraisers, communicators and executive directors who want to tell great stories. In this book, professionals will learn a process for telling a story that inspires and resonates with a target audience."--Back cover.

Author : Chris Power
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719067

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Mothers by Chris Power Pdf

An “extraordinary” (The Sunday Times) debut of unnerving beauty, Chris Power’s short story collection Mothers evokes the magic and despair of the essential human longing for purpose. Chris Power’s stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends—characters who search without knowing what they seek. Their paths lead them to thresholds, bridges, rivers, and sites of mysterious, irresistible connection to the past. A woman uses her mother’s old travel guide, aged years beyond relevance, to navigate on a journey to nowhere; a stand-up comic with writer’s block performs a fateful gig at a cocaine-fueled bachelor party; on holiday in Greece, a father must confront the limits to which he can keep his daughters safe. Braided throughout is the story of Eva, a daughter, wife, and mother, whose search for a self and place of belonging tracks a devastating path through generations. Ranging from remote English moors to an ancient Swedish burial ground to a hedonistic Mexican wedding, the stories in Mothers lay bare the emotional and psychic damage of life, love, and abandonment. Suffused with yearning, Power’s transcendent prose expresses a profound ache for vanished pasts and uncertain futures.

Author : Normand Baillargeon
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609804725

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Order Without Power by Normand Baillargeon Pdf

With the rise of the global protestor—from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement—the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos, or even terrorists. In Order without Power, an informative primer, Normand Baillargeon thoroughly defines anarchism and recounts its long history. In outlining the forerunners of this movement, he illuminates the differences between collectivists, federalists, communists, syndicalists, and further strains such as anarcho-feminism, pacifist anarchism, and religious anarchism. With sharp examples and concise, lively language, Baillargeon describes the contributions from early anarchists like William Godwin, Max Stirner, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre Kropotkin, through Noam Chomsky, as well as the uprisings, struggles, revolts, and revolutions that tested or expanded the theories. From the International Workingmen’s Association to Haymarket, from the Russian Revolution to May 1968, Baillargeon unpacks anarchism’s position on various issues and reveals this political theory’s vibrant heart: anti authoritarianism, or the rational and conscious refusal of any form of illegitimate authority and power.

Author : Marshall Gregory
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268161156

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Shaped by Stories by Marshall Gregory Pdf

In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical implication of this nearly universal human obsession with narratives. Through careful readings of Katherine Anne Porter’s "The Grave," Thurber’s "The Catbird Seat," as well as David Copperfield and Wuthering Heights, Gregory asks (and answers) the question: How do the stories we absorb in our daily lives influence the kinds of persons we turn out to be? Shaped by Stories is accessible to anyone interested in ethics, popular culture, and education. It will encourage students and teachers to become more thoughtful and perceptive readers of stories.

Author : Lesley Tierra
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1452556008

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Metaphor-phosis: Transform Your Stories from Pain to Power by Lesley Tierra Pdf

Do the same things happen to you over and over? Do people treat you in similar ways? Do you feel stuck in repeating negative patterns? Hidden subconscious stories have a way of creating lots of drama, blame, and distractions. They also drain your energy and keep you from experiencing the life you want. So how do you stop such cyclical patterns and free yourself from the past? To truly change your outer life, it’s necessary to first shift your inner life. Through a complete toolbox that takes you beyond mere psychological tricks and into the dimension of Spirit, Metaphor-phosis helps you harness the extraordinary power within to transform your life. My own journey in self-healing and helping others heal has taught me that whether you want to improve your life or make major changes, the “magic” key lies in discovering your limiting subconscious patterns and diffusing their energy so when you focus on what you desire instead, there’s nothing in the way to block its manifestation. Metaphor-phosis helps you do just that – catalyzes a potent shift so you emerge a different person. It teaches how to: Discover your limiting stories Unhook from subconscious patterns and beliefs Determine your life’s purpose Manifest your dreams and visions Through a blend of personal story, scientific facts, practical teachings, and effective tools, learn how to clear repetitive experiences, heal wounds, and create a freer, more fulfilling life. Come explore your unique inner treasures to shift your stories from limitation and imprisonment to possibility and freedom!

Author : Maria Tatar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393240047

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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar Pdf

Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar challenges many of our assumptions about childhood reading. Much as our culture pays lip service to the importance of literature, we rarely examine the creative and cognitive benefits of reading from infancy through adolescence. By exploring how beauty and horror operated in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, and many other narratives, Tatar provides a delightful work for parents, teachers, and general readers, not just examining how and what children read but also showing through vivid examples how literature transports and transforms children with its intoxicating, captivating, and occasionally terrifying energy. In the tradition of Bruno Bettelheim’s landmark The Uses of Enchantment, Tatar’s book is not only a compelling journey into the world of childhood but a trip back for adult readers as well.