Readings on Storytelling

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From October 1996 to Novemb er 2000, Steve Denning was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank, where he spearheaded the Banks knowledge program. Steve Denning is the author of the Steves website has a collection of materials on knowledge sharing and storytelling and may be found at:
. He now works part-time with the World Bank and consults with other organizations in the U.S., Europe and Australia on knowledge management and organizational storytelling. Steve also conducts workshops in the US and Europe on organization storytelling.

The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (published by Butterworth Heinemann, 2000) which describes how storytelling can serve as a powerful tool for organizational change and knowledge management. In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the worlds ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos) along with Jack Welch (GE) and John Chambers (CISCO).

Steve Denning was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He studied law and psychology at Sydney University and worked as a lawyer in Sydney for several years. He did a postgraduate degree in law at Oxford University in the U.K. Steve then joined the World Bank where he worked for several decades in many capacities and held various management positions, including Director of the Southern Africa Department from 1990 to 1994 and Director of the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996.www.stevedenning.com
Steve has given many presentations on knowledge management and storytelling in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He was a member of the Conference Board Quality Council V from 1992 to 1996. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (U.K.) He has published a novel and a volume of poetry.

After almost 10 years in business, 1000s of clients, 10,000s stories and counting...It's now time to say Thank You and Good Bye.

Thank you for making One Thousand & One Australia's most successful storytelling company since 2004, for sharing our journey and helping us create success over ten years.

It is now time for both of us to fly solo. We still look forward to collaborating with each other on various projects, perhaps writing another book or two, & supporting each other, drawing on the strength, fun and magic of our partnership. As was famously said in Shrek 2 'May all your endings be happy', ours certainly is. But every ending has a beginning so where to next?

We have set up under our own individual names.

gabrielledolan.com and yamininaidu.com.au

Please check out our websites and feel free to contact us individually.

So as one story ends and two new stories start, we look forward to staying in touch with you and continuing to do work we love, with people we like.

Thank you,

Gabrielle and Yamini

Present visual stories that transform audiences

By leveraging techniques normally reserved for cinema and literature, Resonate reveals how to transform any presentation into an engaging journey. You will discover how to understand your audience, create persuasive content, and elicit a groundswell response.

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• Connect with your audience empathetically
• Craft ideas that get repeated
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Few things excite me more than a great communicator-something I've wanted to be ever since I ran for president of the seventh grade. While I think I've come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte's Resonate. Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you'll be on your way to being a great communicator. Thanks, Nancy!

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Published 2010 by Wiley