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Article by Diego Ingrassia – “StoryTelling for Leaders” – FEBRUARY 2019 LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

Storytelling<\/strong> has very ancient origins, in the search for its first written evidence we can go as far back as 2,500 years before the Christian era. This is in fact the dating of the Epopea of Gilgame\u0161<\/em>, the Babylonian epic poem narrating the exploits of the ruler of Uruk. If we were to look for its origin in oral tradition, its traces would be lost in the mists of time, because the development of human civilisation has always been accompanied by the telling of stories. We should not forget that the transmission of knowledge, through oral storytelling, was of fundamental importance to most human beings until very recent times: in fact, until the spread of the first mass media.<\/p>\n

For some years now we have been witnessing a rediscovery of this powerful tool through a variety of forms: from the classic speech by a speaker, to commercials, to more recent realisations, such as the Instagram stories<\/strong>, <\/em> which we can consider the digital transposition of the old comic strips found in newspapers since the end of the 19th century. In terms of the environments and contexts in which it is used, storytelling has long since transcended the more traditional sectors to spread to the worlds of politics, education, sport and within companies, not only with regard to advertising, but also as a powerful internal communication tool. The most interesting aspect is that, although these examples are very different, some basic rules do not change, and they are the same rules that have accompanied the effectiveness and fortune of these ‘memorable stories’ since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n

What are these rules:<\/p>\n