#27 - Stories with Impact
This newsletter is about telling stories: breaking the storytelling code, using stories in job interviews, telling stories with data. We will discover one of the most poetic data storytellers, as well as one of the funniest. And we will wrap up this edition with 3 impactful career stories.
Book Recommendation: The Storytelling Code
This short book distills everything about storytelling into 10 essential rules. Whether you need to tell a story to a client, a boss, a friend, or a stranger, this book will help you craft an impactful one.
3 Story Types for Job Interviews
How to increase the chances that your next interview will lead to a job offer? Be relevant. Be memorable. Three types of stories will keep you on top of the interviewer’s mind.
Book Recommendation: Storytelling with Data - Let’s Practice!
Data in a spreadsheet or facts on a slide are easily forgotten. Stories are memorable. Pairing a potency of a story with effective visuals means that our audience can recall what they heard or read in addition to what they saw. A valuable companion to the original bestseller “Storytelling with Data”, this book offers you endless opportunities and resources to practice your data storytelling skills.
Data Visualisations: Art and Fun
Data visualisations are not only for business and science. Just check these 2 Instagram Accounts:
Giorgia Lupi demonstrates with her work that data visualisations can be creative and outright artistic. The cover image for this newsletter comes from one of her projects. And her book “Observe, Collect, Draw! A Visual Journal”, co-authored with Stephanie Posavec invites data visualisation into your everyday life.
https://www.instagram.com/giorgialupi/?hl=en
Matt Shirley tries to make a chart every day - they are smart and fun! - and has recently published a collection of these charts as a book: “A Visual’s Learning Guide to Being a Grown Up”. His Instagram account is so hugely popular because all of us can relate to the topics of his “data visualisations”.
https://www.instagram.com/mattsurelee/?hl=en
Pursuing Impactful Careers
This was a very insightful panel discussion by INSEAD Professor Jasjit Singh with 3 INSEAD alumnae pursuing impactful careers in three very different settings: with a leading consulting company, with a startup manufacturing zero-emission aviation powertrains, and with the Global Fund. The common theme is that everyone’s path to an impactful career will be unique: sometimes straightforward, sometimes meandering. Whatever it will be, we should align our path to our unique strengths and values.
Linking it back to storytelling with data, I liked how one of the panelists - Lisa Wei - has visually presented her career journey:
From the INSEAD Panel discussion “Pursing Impactful Careers”
Stay healthy, tell stories, make your impact,
Arina
Cover image: from Georgia Lupi’s Instagram account