Storytelling at Work: How Moments of Truth on the Job Reveal the Real Business of Life, by Mitch Ditkoff
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Storytelling at Work is a groundbreaking book about the power of personal storytelling to spark insight, meaning, and innovation – especially in the modern day workplace where data and information have too often supplanted knowledge and wisdom. The author of the book, Mitch Ditkoff, has been an “innovation provocateur” to some of the world’s most forward thinking organizations since 1987 and has come to realize that the single most effective way to jump start wisdom in the workplace is via the sharing of well told stories – first person “moments of truth” that have embedded within them the DNA of what it really takes to be a positive force for change, on or off the job. Part One of Storytelling at Work includes 37 of the author’s own stories from the front lines of business, both as the Co-Founder of Idea Champions – a leading innovation consultancy – and earlier in his life, as a young entrepreneur trying to find his way in the world. The stories are entertaining, evocative, and mind opening. Each one is followed by a brief reflection – a simple way for readers to apply the message of the story to their own lives. Part Two of the book is a collection of 16 essays on the art and science of storytelling, a thought provoking exploration of why stories are such a powerful communication medium and how the reader can make best use of stories to have the most possible positive impact on others. "I truly LOVE this book! Mitch Ditkoff has delivered a modern classic on how to communicate with wisdom. Kudos!" —Rowan Gibson, author of The Four Lenses of Innovation "Storytelling at Work is filled with Eureka moments that will spark your creativity and ignite your motivation. Original and deeply insightful!” —Marshall Goldsmith, author of Triggers, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller “Mitch Ditkoff’s powerfully written book shows us how storytelling, well done, humanizes the world of work and helps us tune into the deep well of timeless wisdom within.” —Tim Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis
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- Published on: 2015-11-21
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Storytelling at Work: How Moments of Truth on the Job Reveal the Real Business of Life, by Mitch Ditkoff About the Author Mitch Ditkoff, author of Stoytelling at Work, is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions, a leading edge innovation consulting and training company headquartered in Woodstock, NY. His previous book, Awake at the Wheel, won a much coveted Silver Medal in the Axiom Book Award competition. In 2010 and 2011, Mitch was voted "Best Innovation Blogger in the World" and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He is the father of two (Jesse and Mimi) and the husband of one (Evelyne Pouget), renowned peace artist and humanitarian. He wants you to tell your story. Will you?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Stories That Spark New (Our Own) Stories By TedP “Storytelling at Work” by Mitch Ditkoff“In most organizations, information is no longer sufficient to spark change. Data is no longer king. Thinking takes us only part of the way home. It’s feeling that completes the journey, feeling and the courage to communicate our message in a fresh, new way.” p. 59As with any decent book, there are reasons to read it; as with some, there are also good reasons to have it. I got my first (we have five now, Christmas gifts) copy of Mitch Ditkoff’s storytelling book at his workshop in Woodstock on workplace storytelling. It was a couple of weeks before the book was officially launched. The event was November 10, Tuesday evening. Three days later, Friday afternoon, the world watched as mis-wired humans under the influence of ISIS killed 130 people in Paris. It had been a long day for me by the time I sat in bed to turn off the lights. I needed a story to digest the day and properly turn its page. By my bed, among a goodly herd of books, the Bible and Ditkoff were looking at me, each book, as Ditkoff’s states on his cover, offering to show “how moments of truth on the job reveal the real business of life.” I chose Ditkoff; I needed something new to match the news. And turning to the bookmark where I had left off two days earlier, I saw this arresting title: “The Afghani Cab Driver.” As you can sense even from the title, this story was timed well, but you need the story itself to see how it was a perfect dressing for the wounds of that particular day, and if it weren’t a spoiler, I would talk about it now.But that is how the book can work. There is a story, even as I have told a little one here, and it fits into some piece of work or part of the life of a real fellow, making his way in the world. A lot of discovering, a lot of courage and what shows up as wisdom when looked at later. We the readers can let these be stories that move us, as I did on November 13, and we can also do something more with them, which is why the book is good to own. Ditkoff’s mission is much more than setting up another case of teller and audience, cool as that always is, in his (and my own) view. In addition, he hopes that we will begin telling our own stories in some new, more intentional way. There are good reasons to do that in our jobs, careers, families, arts, organizations. In anything that qualifies as work (this is me talking here), we are focusing intense energy of the mind and body to influence a change. Stories make that work better. As he states after his 11th story (“The Martial Arts of the Mind”),“In most organizations, information is no longer sufficient to spark change. Data is no longer king. Thinking takes us only part of the way home. It’s feeling that completes the journey, feeling and the courage to communicate our message in a fresh, new way.” p. 59So, in addition to the stories, after each of them he gives us something to think about in a “So What?” section and then a sentence or two you can use right at the moment, called “Now What?” that extends to us the reason Ditkoff offered us the story. Here is part of it from “The Seven-Letter Word”: "Now What: What is your version of the seven-letter word? How might you move some tiles on the board of your life until it fits? If that doesn't work, how can you start a new game?" P. 180.I have probably a ton of books (that being a unit of weight) and have long ago realized that getting one more book physically onto the shelves, might seem ridiculous when I am picking one up in the bookstore or at a live book reading. But eventually I stopped that struggle when I realized something that I now remind myself with this mantra, “Price of Admission.” For me, it means that somewhere in a decent book I will find an idea that will help or change me in ways that transcend the price of buying it and the effort to find a place for it in the house. So, with “Storytelling” you get 38 clear chances to find that “price of admission” with his stories. He keeps the stories short—truly short—which I appreciate. I know how hard that is. So, you can read one aloud in a few minutes. I just timed “Arm Wrestling the CIA” at four minutes. Reading aloud in such short a time makes these morsels eminently shareable.Helping us get into storytelling ourselves, even just informally as most people probably do many times a week, the book’s Part 2, called “The Art and Science of Storytelling” gives another set of short essays or inspirations, like blogs. And if you want to join him on his spirited mission to bring storytelling to more places, especially to your own living room, he gives some (10) tips in Chapter 14, “How To Facilitate Storytelling Circles.” And while anyone who actually had the guts to try that at work might figure out many of these tips, it helps to have it here. That is often the best part of owning a book like this: it helps the others you are trying to rally to see it in print, authored by an outsider, by someone with a great track record. You are not the one inventing “No cell phone usage” or “No therapizing, criticizing, or preaching.” You just photocopy page 255 and hand it out. You let Ditkoff say, “Allow you to facilitate.”So, as with most of my books, there are good reasons to read this, but also good reasons to have it, to own it. Page 249 gives three dozen one-word prompts under the heading “Choose a word and identify a story it triggers.” It is fun to have that on a gray day to prompt me. Here’s the last of his list to try out right now: Connection.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Wise and Enjoyable By Danna W. Mitchell Ditkoff is one of the world's leading innovation experts. He also happens to be a wise and witty man. The meta-moral in this collection of engaging stories is that wisdom emerges unexpectedly out of real-life experience. And (I guess this is Meta-Moral #2): That wisdom can be applied effectively in the workplace. The book provides examples of how this happens in a style that makes the material fun and easily digestible. It's stimulating personally and will also be useful to anyone in business who's interested in how stories (the stories that happen to us AND the stories in our head!) feed and support creativity. Recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I Couldn't Put This Book Down By TR I have one problem with Mitch Ditkoff's new book: it's so good that I can't put it down. Normally, that's what I look for in a book, a page-turner that keeps me chomping at the bit to get back to it. And Mitch's collection of stories from his rich and varied career have everything I love: humor, wit, insight, and urbane-and-everyman-sensibility combined. Whether he's writing about working as a night clerk in a seedy hotel and being challenged to an arm-wrestling match by a CIA agent, or interviewing homeless people on the streets of NYC, or leading creative thinking seminars for Fortune 500 companies, Mitch knows how to to draw us in, then peer into the human beings he encounters, and finally arrive at some glimpse of wisdom.But it doesn't stop there. Mitch asks readers to reflect on the story, and recall similar situations from their own lives and what they can glean from it. This is where I am supposed to stop reading, and in fact I want to. I want to take the time for reflection. But I give into the temptation to read more. Each story packs equal parts humor and heart and is as interesting as the next one. So I keep reading and loving it.Mitch has created something more than a collection of stories and prompts for reflecting. The last section of the book is devoted to "The Art and Science of Storytelling" includes a series of short essays on the power of stories, how to find stories of our own and bring them to life. Finally, he lays his cards on the table and reveals his grand scheme: to involve us in creating a storytelling culture. After reading this book, and knowing that I will read it again to take time for reflection, I'm game.
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