HUM 210: Understanding our World Through the Arts

From the bestselling authors of The Power of Visual Storytelling comes the highly anticipated follow-up, The Laws of Brand Storytelling, the definitive quick-reading rulebook for how to use the power of storytelling to win over customers' hearts, minds, and long-term loyalty.

STORYNOMICS translates the lessons of storytelling in business into economic and leadership success. After successfully guiding organizations as diverse as Samsung, Marriott International, Philips, Microsoft, Nike, IBM, and Siemens to transform their marketing from an ad-centric to story-centric approach, McKee and Gerace now bring this knowledge to business leaders and entrepreneurs alike.

Whether your goal is to sell, educate, fundraise, or entertain, your story is your most valuable asset. A well told story hits you like a punch to the gut; it triggers the light bulb moment, the 'aha' that illuminates the path to innovation.

Legendary business thinkers Mathews and Wacker reveal how to craft an unforgettable story, create the back story that makes it believable, and make sure the story cuts through todays relentless bombardment of consumer messages and is heard, remembered, and acted on.

How to use the principles of Pixar-style storytelling to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes. Former Pixar and The Simpsons animator and story artist Matthew Luhn translates his two and half decades of storytelling techniques and concepts to the CEOs, advertisers, marketers, and creatives in the business world and beyond.

Whether you're trying to communicate a vision, sell an idea, or inspire commitment, storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between lackluster enthusiasm and a rallying cry. This how-to guidebook shows readers how powerful stories can help define culture and values, engender creativity and innovation, foster collaboration, build relationships, provide coaching and feedback, and lead change. Whether in a speech or a memo, communicated to one person or a thousand, storytelling is an essential skill for today's leaders. Many highly successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool.

People forget facts, but they never forget a good story. Let the Story Do the Work shows how the art of storytelling is key for any business to achieve success. For most, there's nothing easy about crafting a memorable story, let alone linking it to professional goals. However, material for stories and anecdotes that can be used for your professional success already surround you.

This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a variety of different issues. It, therefore can be considered an important resource for anyone concerned with effectively managing the growing cultural diversity within our societies to ensure inclusive and sustainable development.

The first-of-its-kind book on data story telling set in the Indian context by an Indian author. The Power of Data Storytelling is a book that aims to solve the classic dilemma of—How do I make company data interesting and present it in the form of a great data story for today's time-crunched professionals. The book focuses on various methods of converting dry facts and figures into interesting characters, events and relaying them in the form of a story to enable company's decision-making.

Paul Smith, author of the acclaimed Lead with a Story, shifts his best-selling formula to the sales arena. Complete with model stories, skill-building exercises, and enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies, this powerful and practical guide gives you the tools you need to turn your experiences into stories that sell.

Pairing interviews and case studies with a simple, scalable framework, this practical book will help you craft and deliver comprehensive, compelling, and dynamic introductions and personal stories for yourself, your team, or your company.