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The WhatNeuroscience shows we are wired for STORY. Storytelling uses STORY as a Communication Strategy. Story Thinking uses STORY as an Operational Strategy. Telling a better story is an important skillset. But living a better story is the ultimate goal.
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The WhyStory Thinking was created to address the growing needs of knowledge workers, knowledge leaders, and learning organizations in the knowledge economy, where ideas are the raw materials. It is time to move beyond memorized learning and step-by-step business processes and begin to operate from the sense-making pattern of STORY.
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The Why NowAs the organization becomes increasingly complex, merging the intelligence of people and machines, we will need to develop new models for leadership, change, and education. There are four ways to prepare for this future:
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The HowStory Thinking is about the major organizational challenges related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and ways for visionary leaders to begin addressing them now by rethinking traditional views of change, learning, and leadership. This is not another book about the gloom and doom associated with predicted job losses due to robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Instead, this is a solutions-based book that provides a new way of thinking about the organization, called Story Thinking.
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The Who
John Lewis, Ed.D. is a leadership speaker and coach, and is the founder and president of Explanation Age LLC, a management consulting company that focuses on thought leadership, organizational change, and knowledge management. He is a member of The International Institute for Knowledge and Innovation, and an independent certified leadership Coach, Teacher and Speaker with The John Maxwell Team.
John has delivered a Keynote presentation at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research Studies, a Masters Series presentation at the International Society for Performance Improvement conference, and a Thought Leader presentation at the Canadian Society for Training and Development conference. John holds a Doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California, with a dissertation focus on mental models and decision making. John is the author of “The Explanation Age” and “Story Thinking,” which provide tools for the coming age of knowledge and decision transparency, with implications for Business, Education, and Governments. New methods are presented to facilitate strategic management, thought leadership, learning strategies, collaborative decision making, and conflict resolution. John has worked for several leading global organizations and his career highlights include launching GPS satellites and being recognized by Gartner with an industry Best Practice paper for a global knowledge management implementation. |