who this guy was. And I’m sure they had a lot of trepidation and just figured whatever it is, none of
it’s doing to be very good (slight laugh). And I put together this presentation that went on, probably
went on forever. And I didn’t know what works, so I tried a lot of different things. At the time, I was
reading a lot of Dr. 4. (So I shared at the all hands meeting thatSeuss to my daughter who was ) I read
Yertle the Turtlebe king. And he’s king of all he sees. And the , a story about a turtle who wants to
higher the ladder, the more he sees. And he makes his ladder out of turtles. Well as he’s building his
ladder, the people at the bottom started to complain that it’s hurting down here. He saying, “That
doesn’t matter; I’m king! I’m supposed to do great things. Your job is to feel pain.” (slapping table)
So he kept buthey kept complaining more and finally the guy at ilding more and getting higher, and
the bottom just rebels and shook, and the whole thing came down and he lost his kingdom. Now I
told the story because I was being made the head of a large organization. I wanted to say that, as I’m at
the top, I don’t want to lose touch with the people at the ground level. That’s what I was trying to say.
Nobody got it. What they got instead was “he reads to his daughter. My father read to me. My father
read me thatreal to them in a way that they could connect to. At story!” And all of a sudden, I became
every office I went to, they all had prepared a Dr. Seuss thing. When I went to the (office name), they
had the book (office name), they had One Fish, Two FiGreen Eggs and Hamsh. When I went to. I
mean, there are a lot of them (laugh). But it really connected with people. Now, it wasn’t the point of
the stories common”. I did it for an intellectual reason, not for – it was “we have something in
feeling reason. But it was the feeling reason that
UnfamiliarTrepidation (^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
Storytelling
(^)
(^)
I’m king!Feel pain
(^) Complaining
Anarchy
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^) Connection
(^)
(^)
(^) Connection
Commonality
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^) “Now I told the story because I was
being made the head of a large organization. I wanted to say that, as
I’m at thetouch with the people at the ground top, I don’t want to lose
level. That’s what I was trying to say. Nobody got it. What they got instead
was “he reads to his daughter. My father read to me. My father read me
that story!” And all of a sudden, I became real to them in a way that they
could connect to.”
(^)
(^)
PERSONAL
(^)
(^)
FAMILYINFSTORYTELLING (^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
(^)
EMOTION
(^) LEADERSHIP
(^)
FAMILYINF
(^)
(^) CONNECT
(^)
(^)
(^) CONNECT
(^) INTELLIGENCE
EMOTION