Storytelling is a Strategic Superpower
By Mohan Sivaloganathan
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eep the personal and the business separate. It’s time to retire this antiquated script for achieving success, because today’s workforce of Gen Z and Millennial leaders are designing a better and healthier approach before our eyes. I vividly remember a moment that taught me how making the work personal is imperative to success. I was in my
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first job coming out of college, working for a large corporation on a manufacturing site. My ambitions superseded everything and I had tunnel vision: I was going to rise up the corporate ladder, with validation coming from numbers, documents, and results. As a man of color and second-generation immigrant in the United States, I was always taught that burying yourself in
work ethic and ambition was the only path to success. Driven by this formula for success, I started operating like the machines on our manufacturing floor, working solely on my own, and treating my co-workers as robots. My system was shocked when I couldn’t achieve desired results, which wasn’t about strategy, mechanics, or dashboards. My team members started to distrust
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