Tell to Win

Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

De: Peter Guber

Narrado por: Patrick Egan

Today everyone—whether they know it or not—is in the emotional transportation business. More and more, success is won by creating compelling stories that have the power to move partners, shareholders, customers, and employees to action. Simply put, if you can’t tell it, you can’t sell it. And this book tells you how to do both.

Historically, stories have always been igniters of action, moving people to do things. But only recently has it become clear that purposeful stories—those created with a specific mission in mind—are absolutely essential in persuading others to support a vision, dream or cause.

Peter Guber, whose executive and entrepreneurial accomplishments have made him a success in multiple industries, has long relied on purposeful story telling to motivate, win over, shape, engage and sell. Indeed, what began as knack for telling stories as an entertainment industry executive has, through years of perspiration and inspiration, evolved into a set of principles that anyone can use to achieve their goals.

In Tell to Win, Guber shows how to move beyond soulless Power Point slides, facts, and figures to create purposeful stories that can serve as powerful calls to action. Among his techniques:

* Capture your audience’s attention first, fast and foremost
* Motivate your listeners by demonstrating authenticity
* Build your tell around “what’s in it for them”
* Change passive listeners into active participants
* Use “state-of-the-heart” technology online and offline to make sure audience commitment remains strong

To validate the power of telling purposeful stories, Guber includes in this book a remarkably diverse number of “voices” —master tellers with whom he’s shared experiences. They include YouTube founder Chad Hurley, NBA champion Pat Riley, clothing designer Normal Kamali, “Mission to Mars” scientist Gentry Lee, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, former South African president Nelson Mandela, magician David Copperfield, film director Steven Spielberg, novelist Nora Roberts, rock legend Gene Simmons, and physician and author Deepak Chopra.

After listening to this extraordinary mix of voices, you’ll know how to craft, deliver—and own—a story that is truly compelling, one capable of turning others into viral advocates for your goal.

A compelling and enjoyable listen

I started to read TTW but got sidetracked halfway through. I was delighted to come across the audiobook one Saturday as I was looking for something to listen to while I did housework. I thoroughly enjoyed the content and the presentation.

Full of good material - but hard work at times

Peter Guber is a remarkable, talented, dynamo of a business man in the world of mainstream media. His experience in the world of big-time entertainment and media is mind boggling.

This is worth listening to just to hear some of his stories and about the people he's rubbed shoulders with, projects he's run and films he's made.

It's jam packed with valuable insights and if you need to become more persuasive then you should definitely get it.

That said - especially given his pedigree - I couldn't help feeling that the book was quite hard work at times. In some parts it comes across as a text book. You get his message loud and clear. But there are areas where he lost my attention - somehow his style is less than engaging at times. I put this down to the fact that he's a 'suit' in the entertainment business, rather than a front line creative talent. His use of language is heavily dosed with the language of business: 'incentivise', 'objectives', bottom line', or similar. I often found him sounding more like an American business consultant talking to a marketing conference with a powerpoint slides and pie charts than a man who personally has what it takes to ignite a room with passion and purpose through the power of story telling.

There was nothing wrong with the quality of the reading, but perhaps the book should have been abridged for audio - rather than simply read. Either that, or it would benefit from an overhaul by a different editor.

Don't get me wrong, it is a valuable work for anyone who needs to be improve their powers of persuasion. I've actually bought two hard copies. One for myself, and one for someone whom I also think would benefit from some of his experience. Just don't expect an easy listen. I'd be surprised if the book becomes a best seller in its current form.

A good book 3 hour book compressed into 10 hours

A good 3 hour book compressed into 10 hours.
the book was too wordy. he could have used more description of the strategy.

Great book

Great resorces and examples on how to become memorable storyteller. I've learned so much on how I will from now on present my business.

Ugh, not even good

Wow! I tried to avoid the reviews because the book was highly recommended by someone I respect. It turns out the reviews were right. The author name drops so much that I got really bored listening to it. Some of the stories are good but they are long and they don't really reinforce the points he is trying to make. Long book that focuses mainly on reinforcing the coolness factor of Peter Guber. Yeah, yeah yeah you are cool and you met a lot of people and some of those stories are cool. But, that doesn't help me much. One example, the A-ha from the last chapter - Technology is great but instead of State of the Art make sure to use State of the Heart. "Stick a dull pencil in my eye".