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David Hutchens is an author, business writer and learning designer who creates communication solutions for The Coca-Cola Company, Wal-Mart, IBM, GE, Nike, Bank of America, and others. He served as chairman of Storytelling in Organizations, a special interest group of the globally renowned National Storytelling Network.

He speaks to organizations and leadership teams all around the world on the topic of storytelling as an organizational capacity. His new book is “Circle of the 9 Muses: A Storytelling Field Guide for Innovators and Meaning Makers,” Wiley & Sons 2015

He is creator of the Learning Fables -- a book series that uses narrative and metaphor to illustrate principles of organizational learning. With titles that include "Outlearning the ...more

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	Outlearning the Wolves: Surviving and Thriving in a Learning Organization 4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows of the Neanderthal: Illuminating the Beliefs That Limit Our Organizations by David Hutchens (Goodreads Author), Bobby Gombert (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lemming Dilemma: Living With Purpose, Leading With Vision by David Hutchens (Goodreads Author), Bobby Gombert (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tip of the Iceberg: Managing the Hidden Forces That Can Make or Break Your Organization by David Hutchens (Goodreads Author), David Hutchens (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Slice of Trust: The Leadership Secret with the Hot & Fruity Filling by David Hutchens (Goodreads Author), Barry Rellaford 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circle of the 9 Muses: A Storytelling Field Guide for Innovators and Meaning Makers 3.78 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Story Dash: Find, Develop, and Activate Your Most Valuable Business Stories . . . In Just a Few Hours 4.15 avg rating — 41 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listening to the Volcano: Conversations That Open Our Minds to New Possibilities really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pageland: A Story About Love 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

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David Hutchens rated a book it was amazing The Institute by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Couldn’t put it down. Thematically, I think of this as the novelization of Le Guin’s classic short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”
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David Hutchens rated a book it was amazing Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Smartly done and valuable. This book is short and efficient, but hits some on some big, mind-shifting ideas for entrepreneurs like me. It does the miraculous thing of answering exactly the questions I have in this moment, but no more. This is a case ...more
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Valuable. I’m the guy that the author describes so specifically: I built my business on my own personality and talent, and I have a belief that others can’t do what I do. I know that belief has stunted my business. The book has really nice wisdom for g ...more
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David Hutchens rated a book liked it Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable by Michael Margolis (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is one of those books on the topic of storytelling where the author doesn’t tell stories, so that’s a big hit to its credibility. The author does offer a really smart construct of “possibility / obstacle” storytelling (vs the old “problem / solu ...more
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“對組織來說，自我超越不只是個人的事情，也是有關領導力的議題，領導者藉著啟發人們探索自己的使命，並且建立有助於實踐自我超越的環境，就可以開始加強組織使命與個人使命之間的一致性。”
― David Hutchens, The Lemming Dilemma: Living With Purpose, Leading With Vision

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