"Steve Denning is the Warren Buffett of business communication. He sees things others don't and is able to explain them so the rest of us can understand." Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick
Steve Denning is the author of 5 books. I have read two. The first one I read was The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. Excellent! Powerful. Crisp. Clear. Read this book, some or all of it, before any presentation. Great reminders and inspiring examples...stories to help us understand the power of a story well-told for the right audience who seeks its meaning.
The second one I read is why we have a chance to talk with Mr. Denning. The Reader's Guide to Radical Management.
Excellent, as well. Here he's not telling us a story but offering a guide with principles and tips that are livable and doable, respectively. He brings together an excellent range of references that show both the need for reinventing or workplace as well as the benefits for those who are able and the penalties for those who ...choose to remain unable.
From his website:
From 1996 to 2000, Steve was the Program Director, Knowledge Management at the World Bank where he spearheaded the organizational knowledge sharing program.
In November 2000, Steve Denning was selected as one of the world’s ten Most Admired Knowledge Leaders (Teleos)
He now works with organizations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia on leadership, innovation, business narrative and most recently, radical management.
I heard Steve speak nearly 2 years ago at the Author's PowWow conference in Chicago hosted by 800CEORead. (Thank you, Todd!) I was so impressed by his presentation. It was his story that stood out.
Now some speakers stand out more than their story. And you're left with an anecdote to share at a backyard barbecue. Hey, I saw x speak.
Other speakers leave you with a nice deck of PowerPoint slides and maybe one or two salient points tucked away in them.
Not so with Steve. Steve's presentation left me with a story, an experience, a journey's moment shared in mind's eye of what a good story can accomplish even when told against the odds, to an impersonal bureaucracy. And then I remembered who told me. And then I remembered I had a copy of his book.
And now, we have a chance to talk with Steve Denning, the Warren Buffett of business communication. We have a chance to glimpse a little more then of what he sees and maybe understand it and how it can help us.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 27 at 9:30 AM, Central.
Here are our two listening options:
LIVE
1). Listen in streaming mode at this link.
2). Call-in and listen, join the conversation, at 646-915-9212.
LATER
1). Listen in streaming mode at this link.
I hope you do.
Regardless, I hope you buy The Reader's Guide to Radical Management. Steve offers in it a reasonable, pragmatic, vision of how to reinvent our workplaces. And in doing so create sustainable workplaces and a sustainable economy. I think that's important.
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