Author: Rick
Originally posted on the Marketing Brain Fodder website, excerpts below: Some impressions are indelible. The golden sun, slowly dropping from view on a perfect horizon; the smell (and taste) of mom’s fresh-baked cherry cobbler; the eyes of a child in an early instance of wonder. For most of us, a few experiences are deeply...
IDEAS StoryAnalytics Master Rick Stone will be facilitating a storytelling hour sponsored by the Winter Park Historical Association featuring six Winter Park High School graduates on Friday February 15, 2013 at 11:30am at the Winter Park Welcome Center. The event is FREE and open to the public but space is limited,...
IDEAS StoryAnalytics Master Rick Stone will be speaking about Storytelling for the Holidays: Engaging Donors and Volunteers on Thursday November 1, 2012 at 11:30am at Rollins College, main campus. Rick will introduce participants to the art of storytelling. Relying on age-old principles of communication, you will discover how stories can...
Originally posted on The Creativity Post website by Maria Konnikova, excerpts below: W.J. was a veteran of World War II. He was gregarious, charming, and witty. He also happed to suffer from a debilitating form of epilepsy—so incapacitating that, in 1960, he elected to have a drastic form of brain surgery:...
“Active Knowledge” redefines GPS as a Global Performance System that can help improve and transform societies, to open success to everyone. Recently introduced, Expandiverse Technology leaps ahead decades into the kind of fully digital world many have predicted by the middle of this century. Using its “Active Knowledge Machine” people...
Good companies spend a fortune on their brand—building it, telling their story in the marketplace, training their staff to embody it, etc. But it doesn’t take much to bring a goliath brand to its knees. In fact, all brands are fragile to a degree, and in the world of social...
Originally posted on the Forbes website. If I had to sum up in two words everything I’ve learned in 25 years of work on communications, rhetoric, public speaking, speechwriting, and body language, those two words would be: charismatic storytelling. Charismatic because in an over-stimulated, impatient world, it’s passion and charisma that get...
Originally posted on the Inc. website by Robert S. Kaplan: Everyone has a success story and a failure story. Which is in your mind when you're making a big decision? Each of us has a life story. In fact, we have several stories. We have a "success story." This is a story that we...
By Henning Mankell, Published December 10, 2011, New York Times Maputo, Mozambique. I CAME to Africa with one purpose: I wanted to see the world outside the perspective of European egocentricity. I could have chosen Asia or South America. I ended up in Africa because the plane ticket there was...
When thinking of the integral role of storytelling in every phase of fundraising, there are myriad ways to examine how fundraising is impacted by this simple, yet profound tool for communicating. To me they are like fractals that when combined create a whole—and all are necessary. Through my years of...
This past Monday IDEAS in conjunction with our partner, Healthcare Team Training (HTT), launched the pilot for StoryCare, a rapid cycle improvement product for healthcare teams to improve patient safety, patient satisfaction, and staff engagement. The site is DeKalb Medical in Atlanta, and we’ll be working with 4 units in...
Why is everyone who is attempting to impact patient safety in the healthcare field talking about storytelling? Recently I was asked to speak to the QualityNet conference in Baltimore on the uses of storytelling to engage health professionals with important improvement initiatives. The conference is sponsored by CMS—the Centers for...
