More Magic of Metaphor: Stories for Leaders, Influencers And Motivators

by Nick Owen

This sequel to the best-selling The Magic of Metaphor explores the power of storytelling to inspire, inform, and transform people's lives. With a particular emphasis on leadership in the very broadest sense of the word, the stories in this collection offer inspiration, inner knowledge, and wisdom. Stories and metaphors are incredibly powerful vehicles through which real change and compassion can be generated in the world, and can be used to influence, motivate, and lead others with elegance and integrity. If you are in business or work in a professional situation, imagine if your staff were to share the same vision, direction, and values that you do-- how much easier would it be to push for your goals, and create powerful and favorable impressions on your clients and your peers? If you are an educator, how much more satisfying would your teaching be—both for you and your students—if you were able --Explain ideas more easily, more memorably, and more powerfully? --Create an environment to which all your students wanted to contribute and belong? --Motivate your students with a desire for life long learning?

368 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2005

Reviews

[PurposeFocusCommitment · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved the first book Magic of Metaphor, so for me to pick up More Magic of Metaphor was simply a matter of time. The second book continues the narrative from the first – the learning process between an apprentice and his mentor (but now it is between an apprentice and a magic carpet). If you are looking for coaching, leadership, or storytelling material then this book is something you should pick up. Nick has collected and shared with us a lot of wonderful, thought-provoking and emotional stories that will make you think, laugh or cry. The book is written in such a way that almost every story can be interpreted in more than one way, depending on what you are searching for. But in the end, the second book (More magic of metaphor) is not as good as the first book (Magic of metaphor). If you are collecting stories as I am, then this is definitely a must read for you.

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[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

You have to be pretty stupid to find most of these metaphors in anyway useful- a very simplistic collection of Metaphors which aren’t as useful as you might think. They are to my mind as simplistic as the Zen koans are complex. Neither extreme is particularly useful.

Test my review by simply picking up the book and trying to find a good metaphor for a situation you are trying to describe- 9 times out of 10 it’s not there!

[Jan Daker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great stories to use teaching spiral dynamics.

[Natasa Tovornik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great leadership metaphors. Additionally (but not necessary) the explanation of Spiral Dynamics and Wikber 4quadrant model in a very understandable way.