April 21, 2021
Most people, including leaders don’t understand how important storytelling really is to the art of leadership. One reason for this deficit in deep knowledge has to do with how technology especially our smartphones has gutted out the whole storytelling experience and replaced it with a very confused mish mash of reality. So much so that these days if a movie is going to succeed in the box office, it needs loads of CGI (computer generated graphics). As a result many young people these days are very confused about their goals and roles and probably everything else. At the heart of storytelling is a very simple Simon idea of painting where you are and where you are headed…it feeds into the whole idea of man’s primal need for identity and a sense of belonging and destiny, without this trilogy lubricating and nourishing the everdayness of life, its impossible for those in a tribe to perpetuate their way of life coherently. People who lose these narratives, don ....