Hardcover with dust-jacket

Using stories from business, mythology, folklore, and the Bible, teaches readers how to apply storytelling techniques to business and public speaking.

Product Description: A welcome guide to creating a workplace where people can talk frankly without fear for their jobs...even if it means dredging up deep-buried conflicts or calling attention to their own shortcomings. A behavioral science consultant, Annette Simmons provides the key through the formal process of "dialogue...read more

Product Description: What's your story? Who are you? Where do you come from? What do you want? When you seek to influence others, you face these questions and more. Whether you're proposing a risky new venture, trying to close a deal, or leading a charge against injustice, you have a story to tell...read more

Product Description: "No more ""checking for feet."" This illuminating guide gets people to tell the truth at the meeting--not in the bathroom afterwards. Almost everybody does it--lie, that is. In one recent survey 93% of people admitted to lying regularly at work! Why? Because it's safer than telling the truth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the ways in which competition over information, power, and credit can undermine a company's success, and offers strategies for identifying and eliminating barriers to cooperation (view table of contents)