“We’re fortunate to work in an industry where meaningful work is getting done, and people badly want their work to be meaningful,” says Don Faul. “Stories connect the two. It’s the skill every leader needs to learn.”
Here Faul shares the nuts-and-bolts tactics of influential storytelling he’s learned at Google, Facebook, and as head of operations at Pinterest (he’s the first to admit he’s still learning)—and the three types of stories every manager and startup founder should be able to tell fluently.