Two stories that every leader must master

A leader needs two stories: where you came from and where you're going. The origin story builds trust. The vision story inspires people to follow you into the future.
So there's two core stories which you're hitting on in terms of kind of leadership, and that's the origin story and then the vision story. So origin story is how you got to where you are, what makes you special, why you care about what you're doing. Then when we think about the vision story, the vision story is all talking about the future. Too many people get stuck in telling stories about the here and now, which is fine, but that doesn't inspire people to really act. And this is why I call it world building. Because you're job is to build that world in such a way. Like you essentially went and put in a prompt into, you know, into mid journey and it pops out this image of this is what the world looks like up ahead. Do you want to be involved? Do you believe this is possible? So that's why I say they're the two core stories to hit for anyone in tech, any creator, any founder, any business executive. Like, if you don't have those things nailed, you are not a storyteller in like today's era.
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