Last week I ran Presentation Mastery, and I referred to my 2 favourite books for sourcing stories: Magic of Metaphor and More Magic of Metaphor both by Nick Owen.
I find the stories have a much higher hit rate for use in a business context than say Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Mostly I find that reading good non-fiction business books gives the best stories.
Some of the stories I use in Presentation Mastery come from:
You also need to just be on the look out for interesting stories in newspapers, journals, novels, magazines or on TV (I watched Billy Connelly being interviewed once, he had a million great stories).
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