The Power of Stories

Every now and then I get a little obsessed and right now I’m obsessed with stories. I’ve been writing some more stories in my blog – notably my two most recent blog posts: How Fast Can You Change and When Was the Last Time You…

I’ve also been reading books about Stories and in particular been updating the slides, audio and video for one of our recent Book Rapper issues called The Long Tale. It’s derived from Valerie Khoo’s brilliant book Power Stories. We’ve previously shared a summary her book here. And, shared the extracts Your Business Story and What’s Your Calling?

The Power of Stories Slideshow

Today I want to share the slides from this presentation with you…

The full audio and video of this presentation is available to Book Rapper members here.

 

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