Book Review-02-2020: Stories at Work - Unlock the Secret to Business Storytelling by Indranil Chakraborty #honestbookreviews #nospoilers
True Story: This book made me skip my metro station.
I don’t remember how I came upon this book, probably at Delhi airport, where I regularly just browse the book shelves for inspiration and then unabashedly download them on my kindle (Rs 241/-) at a lower price in front of the sales staff. Guilty Pleasure!!
How many times as a manager you present your opinion about the “way things work” &
- The team below you, nods in affirmation and then clever sales people, as they always are, find a way to revert back to the same “way things work”, how then do you bring about change, that lasts?
- The team above you, listens and then presents a stronger opinion basis their better experience that forces you to go back to the drawing board.
In 200 pages, Indranil Chakraborty packs another arrow in your quiver, Stories.
The best thing about this book was that I could learn and implement the stuff, as I went through it. Of course, I am far from perfect, but the results are definitely encouraging.
Part 1, Foundation of this book, is where I lost sense of time and forgot to de-board my station in Delhi Metro. Bulbs lit above my head and I got reminded of so many occasions where I got influenced by stories and also where I could have used stories to influence. When the Part 1 of a book forces you back in time, means that it is going to change you.
Part 2, of the book, takes you to a classroom of Stories. Due to my shortcoming of never being able to sit steady in classrooms, I waded through this part like dragging my feet in a swamp.
Part3, is when we get into the lab. I dropped bookmarks in this section of the book like carpet bombing out of a B-52. So many actionable points to come to back to.
Apart from the book itself,
Another service that Indranil has done is to drop so many good books about so many ideas that shoot out of this one. Special mention to him for the concept of “Barriers to Learning” in the last chapter, yes, I too have guitar that has seen all the metros of this country but hasn’t seen my fingers on its strings.
The language is pretty simple and the book walks that talk with literally a story in every 3 pages.
In conclusion, I am not able to find a grandiose way to write that approximately 2020 years after Chanakya’s Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhed, we can add “Stories” in 2020!!
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