Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.