Jyoti’s business storytelling blog
Brand Stories | Story-Selling | Leadership Storytelling
I started this blog in June 2022 for the release of the International Edition of my book, Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack. The blog gives storytelling tips, best practices, and case studies to make you a more effective leader and communicator. Please check back often! You can also follow me on LinkedIn, where this blog is syndicated. I’d love to continue the conversation with you there!
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Free Audio Summary of ‘Business Storytelling’
People are always asking me if there’s an audiobook of ‘Business Storytelling from Hype to Hack‘. I get it – I listen more than read myself these days. While not quite there, this is a step in that direction… A 16 minute audio summary of the book. Created with AI. I’ve used Google’s (free) Notebook…
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Business Storytelling book sold out in Asia
My book ‘Business Storytelling’ is sold out in Asia. 🥳 This is both good and bad… Good, because it means the book actually sold. Which most books don’t. Bad, because it’s temporarily unavailable (in bookstores in Asia). While it’s sold out in bookstores, the Amazon print-on-demand version is still available for purchase online. Really good,…
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Storytelling for Startup Investor Pitch
This week I was invited to run a Storytelling workshop for Startup Investor Pitches. Some investors hear up to two thousand pitches. In one year. That breaks down to a dozen or more on the same day. Why are some investor pitches memorable and others are quickly forgotten? Startup founders are usually well prepared with…
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Indian Literary Festival with Storytelling Focus
My first Indian literary festival was Kitabfest, in Mumbai, in 2007. It was hosted at the famous Taj hotel, just months before the infamous bombing there. So it was with many memories I returned to Mumbai for a two-day training, helping relationship managers at a Swiss private bank use Business Storytelling for relational and consultative…
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The DBS Bank transformation story from Singapore
Who associates banking… with joy? How GANDALF changed banking – the DBS Bank hashtag#story. DBS Singapore transformation story When DBS CEO Piyush Gupta met Chinese business titan Jack Ma, he knew they were in trouble. The way companies like Alibaba used data would soon revolutionise finance. DBS had to go from being a bank trying…
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Connection is Your Superpower in 2025
Got your supplies for 2025? Connection is your superpower. Connecting to people. Connecting people to people. People to ideas. We’ve got everything else. But before we can connect an audience to our message, they often need to connect with us first. I call this principle ‘messenger before message‘. Western audiences struggle to remember or even…
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Leadership Formation with Prime Minister Eduard Heger
Prime Minister Eduard Heger went from zero politics to PM in 6 years. He was “the least prepared” PM of Slovakia – and the only one to lead his country successfully through multiple crises:🔥 Covid🔥 Double-digit inflation🔥 Coalition crisis🔥 Energy crisis🔥 War This weekend I had the huge honour of teaching at a Leadership Formation…
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Manfred Kets de Vries: the 7 Cs of Leadership
Imagine my surprise when the great Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries kicked off the #leadership workshop with … The Lord of the Rings! At the Global Peter Drucker Forum bonus workshop, “Leading at the Edge of the Unknown”, Manfred and Oriane Kets de Vries entertained and enlightened us with insights from executive psychology. The 7…
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Creating “Mutual Value” at Oxford Saïd Business School
Storytelling for Purpose and Profit at Oxford Yesterday I had the honour of teaching another module for Mutual Value Labs at Oxford Saïd Business School. My session was titled “Storytelling for Purpose, Persuasion and Profit”. Mutual Value Labs helps organisations by Putting Purpose into Practice (the title of the book on the subject edited by…
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Why Doomsday Matters (AI Narratives)
Narratives around AI have gone mainly in one direction: Doomsday. Fear sells, even though AGI / ASI technology is impossibly far off. Why then do doomsday narratives still matter now? Watch the talk on the power of storytelling and narratives on AI scenarios here: We have to talk about how we talk about AI. Is…
