Dux Raymond Sy
dad & husband, @avepoint_inc cmo, trotter, #techforgood advocate, relentless #learnitall, https://t.co/lUi3egFq7h
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“This is a book everyone should get - practical, insightful and humanizes #storytelling https://t.co/m9jYoZRc0T Kudos 👏 @MiriRod for sharing your wisdom & inspiring every person to tell their unique stories rooted in #empathy and direct from the ♥ https://t.co/uUdgxEVfqK” (from X)
FINALIST: 2023 American Marketing Association Foundation Leonard L. Berry Marketing Book Award (first edition) Written by the award-winning storyteller Miri Rodriguez at Microsoft, this bestselling book gets back to the heart of brand loyalty, consumer behavior and engagement as a business strategy by using storytelling to trigger the emotions that humans are driven by. Despite understanding essential storytelling techniques, brands continue to explain how their product or service can help the customer, rather than showcasing how the customer's life has changed as a result of them. This second edition of Brand Storytelling contains new trends in storytelling, as well as expanding on story experience and employee experience. This book explores the future of brand storytelling in a post pandemic era. New to this edition is also a 'How to Guide' taking readers through each step of the design thinking process in order to prototype their stories. Brand Storytelling provides a step-by-step guide to assess, dismantle and rebuild a brand story, shifting the brand from a 'hero' to 'sidekick' mentality and positioning the customer as a key influencer to motivate the audience. Clarifying why machine-learning, AI and automation only tell one side of the story, this book will inspire you with cutting edge interviews and case studies from leading brands like Expedia, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Adobe and Google to tap into authentic brand loyalty and human connection.
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“@magrom I recommend you be radically candid by challenging directly and caring personally - if you haven't, checkout @kimballscott's book #RadicalCandor - tons of great insights https://t.co/TP58vhmi18” (from X)
Kim Scott(you?)
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide * A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year * Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen Rubin Radical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe at companies of all sizes. Now a cultural touchstone, the concept has come to be applied to a wide range of human relationships. The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time. Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice. Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism―to help you love your work and the people you work with. Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities: 1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor 2. Build a cohesive team 3. Achieve results collaboratively Required reading for the most successful organizations, Radical Candor has raised the bar for management practices worldwide.
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“@shonadelie @kylamitsunaga Love the book! Can't wait to see @kylamitsunaga at #MSIgnite” (from X)
Kyla Mitsunaga, Luke Lavin(you?)
Kyla Mitsunaga, Luke Lavin(you?)
It began with an invitation to speak at TED@Seoul in 2012. Kyla noticed an alarming trend at the university level and conferences across the globe where she spoke: all of the speakers were communicating AT their audiences in a one-directional way. There was very little (if any) interaction between the speaker(s) and their audience(s). It was this approach to communicating that she wanted to change and talk about in her TED Talk.Thus, WITH vs AT was born. Inspired by her students at Yonsei University where she taught in the College English department for 6 years, she wanted to leave something behind for them in the form of a book—a parting gift if you will. Based on questions they would often ask both inside and outside the classroom, she weaves together stories from her own life, advice she wishes she had received in her 20s, and includes activities to engage the reader and have them reading along WITH her. In this innovative and unique look at WITH vs AT across different facets of Kyla’s life from education to love to family, she proves that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to two simple prepositions that she hopes will not only change the way you communicate but the way you lead, love, work (and everything else in between) WITH each other and WITH yourself.