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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Author : Andre Bernard
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0446931268
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes written by Andre Bernard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

A Collection of Familiar Quotations

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Collection of Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728223172
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell written by Paul Smith and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW AN OWL (Outstanding Work of Literature) Leadership Award Winner! Every great leader is a great storyteller. As a manager, CEO, or team leader, how can you innovatively engage your employees so that they understand where your organization came from, where it's going, and how you're going to get there? How can you connect with your customers in a way that makes them believe in your company as passionately as you do? Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts in business storytelling. He teaches people how to be more effective leaders by communicating their company's important mission, inspiring creativity, and earning the trust of valued stakeholders. The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell explores the journey behind success, and breaks down not just the importance of your company's story but how to craft compelling ones of your own.

The Truth about Stories

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887846963
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins

Author : Annette Simmons
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814400841
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins written by Annette Simmons and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

Author : R D Wordsworth
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022536784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book "Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories written by R D Wordsworth and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved and enduring figures in American history, Abraham Lincoln was renowned for his wit, humor, and storytelling. This charming and entertaining collection of anecdotes and stories captures Lincoln's unique personality and sense of humor, and offers a glimpse into the life and times of one of America's greatest leaders. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Lincoln or American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199543410
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.

Putting Stories to Work

Author : Shawn Callahan
Publisher : Pepperberg Press
ISBN 13 : 9780992338558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Putting Stories to Work written by Shawn Callahan and published by Pepperberg Press. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

Author : Gyles Brandreth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191066524
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes written by Gyles Brandreth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.

Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811733465
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fifty anecdotes and stories by and about Abraham Lincoln, organized into the major phases of his life: Early Life Stories War Stories Professional Life Stories Miscellaneous Stories White House Stories Published in 1879, the anecdotes show the zest and potency that made Lincoln such a remarkable man. The stories are beautifully narrated by many of Lincoln's colleagues and friends and edited by J. B. McClure, a prominent publisher in Chicago, who was a master of the "anecdotes" literary medium that was very popular in the mid-nineteenth century.

Hollywood Stories

Author : Stephen Schochet
Publisher : Hollywood Stories
ISBN 13 : 0963897276
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Stories written by Stephen Schochet and published by Hollywood Stories. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought you've heard everything about Hollywood comes a totally original new book - a special blend of biography, history and lore. Hollywood Stories is packed with wild, wonderful short tales about famous stars, movies, directors and many others who have been part of the world's most fascinating, unpredictable industry! Full of funny moments and twist endings, Hollywood Stories features an amazing, icons and will keep you totally entertained!

The Storytelling Non-Profit

Author : Vanessa Chase Lockshin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995089303
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book The Storytelling Non-Profit written by Vanessa Chase Lockshin and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Author : Clifton Fadiman
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316084727
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes written by Clifton Fadiman and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

Communicate Like a Leader

Author : Dianna Booher
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626569010
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Communicate Like a Leader by : Dianna Booher

Download or read book Communicate Like a Leader written by Dianna Booher and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in extensive research, this book offers practical guidelines to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, meet, and negotiate strategically to deliver results. --

The Seven Basic Plots

Author : Christopher Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441116516
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Basic Plots written by Christopher Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.

Presidential Anecdotes

Author : Paul F. Boller
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780195097313
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Presidential Anecdotes written by Paul F. Boller and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised edition of Presidential Anecdotes recounts some of the most striking stories about America's 42 chief executives, from Washington to Clinton, shedding light on the presidents as human beings and on the culture that produced them.

Lead with a Story

Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
ISBN 13 : 0814420303
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Lead with a Story written by Paul Smith and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic narratives." Procter Gamble hired Hollywood directors to teach its executives storytelling techniques. Some forward-thinking business schools have even added storytelling courses to their management curriculum. The reason for this is simple: Stories have the ability to engage an audience the way logic and bullet points alone never could. Whether you are trying to communicate a vision, sell an idea, or inspire commitment, storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between mediocre results and phenomenal success. Lead with a Story contains both ready-to-use stories and how-to guidance for readers looking to craft their own. Designed for a wide variety of business challenges, the book shows how narrative can help: * Define culture and values * Engender creativity and innovation * Foster collaboration and build relationships * Provide coaching and feedback * Lead change * And more Whether in a speech or a memo, communicated to one person or a thousand, storytelling is an essential skill for success. Complete with examples from companies like Kellogg's, Merrill-Lynch, Procter Gamble, National Car Rental, Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, and more, this practical resource gives readers the guidance they need to deliver stories to stunning effect.