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the Press Here show or when I do it for our Sand Hill Road podcast, I'm looking for stories. You know, the two guys building, something in a garage or an immigrant coming to America with $20 or the CEO who chucked it all to pursue a dream. These are
communications and storytelling often shows up as a core trait that they're looking for. It didn't used to be the case, but businesses have become more complex. Storytelling is more important than ever. We've got hybrid teams, global teams, Just gett
We teach it to our analytics team so they can be better storytellers to the rest of the companies so they can make their analysis actually usable for their customers, which is the rest of the company. We've all had analytics people that think they're
in the kitchen and not worry about the rattling ancient dishwasher. So suddenly her life is better too. She does all that. That's what I call speaking to adjacency. I'm gonna tell a story about a dishwasher and relate it to the refreshing of servers
uncover a little bit more of the room. And nothing else happens. There's no payoff to it. But the suspense of seeing a little bit more information about the room is absolutely riveting. Even just this tiny amount of new information being given create
and get you closer to the truth of what's happening in finance than if you just look at finance as a math based field. My favorite example of the power of storytelling that I use in the book is Ken Burns, who makes documentaries about US history. His
So the story is actually about that who and why piece. And if you know that your story is really about who you are and why you do what you do, then you're gonna tell it totally differently than this chronological what I was doing when I discovered th
data. I've got a lot of perspectives, and I need to synthesize those all and have them hang together in a way that creates something meaningful and actionable for my audience. But narrative is not story. Narrative is like a collection of stories that
as something that could be useful in the changing of human behavior. I always thought of that sandwich where I say something nice, give the hard thing, and say something nice. She said, you've really changed the way I will give feedback to people for
And it was a big change. And because I had stepped away for a while, I was able to see it much faster than if I would have been there every day. And so I think the speed of the change was jolting for people. I think the most underrated skill in entre
I mean, I probably am too, but there's a lot she could have done to help him out there. It didn't have to end that way. So can I ask you, when you look at this hero, guide, transformation, story gap, gap, do you sit down with the team and literally m
...new and immediately categorize it. Those people tend to be very successful investors, for instance. But generally speaking, I think the idea of original is overrated, and the great filmmakers know this. The great novelists know this, that it can begi
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