Storytelling on steroids /

In this captivating book, John Weich pinpoints the iconic moments that helped transform storytelling from a fringe communication movement into a pop culture phenomenon. Storytelling is the buzzword in global communications: it revolutionizes how leaders in business, marketing, and politics convey id...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weich, John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 The storytelling chromosome
  • Game theory
  • People are not rational beings
  • An addiction to immediacy
  • Continuous partial attention
  • Keeping it real
  • 1/f fluctuation
  • Carrots and the House of Orange
  • Hardwired to find order
  • Weapons of mass reaction
  • The open end
  • A pandemic of mimicry
  • The Googleization of everything
  • A sense of shared purpose
  • Our hero zero
  • Finding the Why
  • "People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad"
  • A complex choreography of interactions
  • The storytelling chromosome
  • The magic of metrics
  • Rebranding the potato
  • Everyone is a storyteller
  • pt. 2 Hijacking the pop culture conversation
  • The Dark Knight: Why so serious?
  • Decode Jay-Z
  • TED Talks
  • Banksy
  • New York Times Infographics
  • The Hire
  • The worst hotel in the world
  • In Rainbows
  • Tomb Raider
  • 1,000 hours of staring
  • pt. 3 A compendium of storytelling learned
  • Too many storytelling gurus
  • Contents note continued: Embrace the culture of omission
  • Dare failure, or avoid the sure thing
  • You're in the business of remembering
  • The cold open is your new BFF
  • Remember that Shakespeare was a chemist
  • Arm against the second law of thermodynamics
  • Master the scripted unscripted
  • Fuel your intuition
  • It's not always what you say but how you say it
  • Break the sequence
  • Platforms tell and movements sell
  • A perfect story doesn't need to be all perfect
  • Disruption works some of the time
  • Find the truth and tell it, or create a myth and sell it
  • Leave your envy at the door.