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Steve Denning (USA)

Steve Denning is the author of the acclaimed book Squirrel Inc. A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling, and now also The Leader's Guide to Storytelling. Both show how storytelling can serve as a powerful tool in meeting key leadership challenges.

Born in Australia, Steve studied law and psychology at Sydney and after practising law for some years did a postgraduate degree in law at Oxford University before joining the World Bank, where he held senior positions including Director of the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996.

He now works with organisations around the world on leadership, change, knowledge management and organisational storytelling and his clients include many Fortune 500 companies. In 2003 he was ranked as one of the world's 'Top Two Hundred Business Gurus' by Davenport & Prusak, in What's The Big Idea? (Harvard, 2003).

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Steve Denning Talks to the Harvard Business Review:Read the article "... the ability to tell the right story at the right time is emerging as an essential leadership skill, one that can help managers cope with, and get business results in, the turbulent world of the twenty-first century." - - Steve Denning
Books by Steve Denning:
	The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative (2005) This book is a comprehensive guide to the use of business narrative as a leadership tool to take an organisation from good to great. It offers a detailed account of why each type of story works and how it works, with numerous examples from business settings of each type of story and practical templates to assist leaders to construct their own story.
"This book, Steve Denning's Magnum Opus on Storytelling, is a great achievement: the one book every manager should read before giving up their lifeless PowerPoint presentations. The book is creative, eclectic, passionate and useful-a rare and winning combination for a business book." - Larry Prusak: co-author of Working Knowledge
	Storytelling in Organisations: How Narrative and Storytelling Are Transforming 21st Century Management (2004) Co-authored with John Seely Brown, Larry Prusak and Katalina Groh, this book explains why storytelling has become so important in organisations.

	Squirrel Inc: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling (2004) This entertaining fable shows how storytelling was used as a leadership tool in the imaginary setting of a squirrel organisation that strangely resembles yours.

	The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations (2000) This inspirational book shows how KM was introduced into the World Bank through the use of springboard storytelling.