Organizational Storytelling: A Leadership Connection

About the Book

If you are the leader who tells organizational stories, people will start looking at you oddly. You want them to because you have achieved a tiny victory. You are fending off staleness by being the storyteller who reaches out and grabs the audience into the story instantaneously - rather than so many other leaders who only give their audience a case of the blahs. Be the person who leads in a zany, laughter-filled environment where politics is as absent as it can be in a human (i.e., imperfect) enterprise. Strip off your blinders as the crazy past is soon going to look like a mellow prelude - and create the organization that is exciting, creative, innovative, and a hoot. Just maybe the organizational fun line and the bottom line can intersect.

About the Author

Dr. Ellington conducted her doctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick, U.K. She worked for IBM 23 years in various leadership positions and is teaching in higher educational institutions. She is an Associate Editor for IJAVET. She has published 30 chapters and 9 journal articles in peer reviewed textbooks and journals. She has been a doctoral committee member several times, and is currently a committee member at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to teaching and researching, she has written 8 children's books in the genre of bullying and taking care of our planet.