Story in sentence

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Before we jump in, here’s a personal story about why it’s sometimes hard to put a finger on how important project management approaches are.

The success of companies and project management approaches is not always correlated and this story is a reminder of this.

I'll tell you one quick story to illustrate what that's been like for me.

The very next day, continuing the totally true story, I got on a G-V to fly to Africa to make a speech in Nigeria, in the city of Lagos, on the topic of energy.

And I began the speech by telling them the story of what had just happened the day before in Nashville.

But what it turned out to be, was that my staff was extremely upset because one of the wire services in Nigeria had already written a story about my speech, and it had already been printed in cities all across the United States of America.

So this is a story of a place that I now call home.

It's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both.

We've seen this story all over the country and even in places beyond the American borders.

And I really, strongly believe in the power of the small story, because it is so difficult to do humanitarian work at a global scale.

So while this is a very small story, we hope that it represents a step in the right direction for the future of rural communities and for the future of public education and hopefully also for the future of design.

What is also important is to note that these figures only tell part of the story.

Now, that's not a new story.

It's quite a familiar story.

This story began four years ago.

Now, I've got a story for you.

This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.

This is not a story of a nameless someone who lived in some war, who we do not know their hopes, their dreams, their accomplishments, their families, their beliefs, their values.

This is my story.

We are missing my mother's story, who made sure with every siren, with every raid, with every cut off-of electricity, she played puppet shows for my brothers and I, so we would not be scared of the sounds of explosions.

We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four years of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.

We are missing the story of Nehia, a Palestinian woman in Gaza who, the minute there was a cease-fire in the last year's war, she left out of home, collected all the flour and baked as much bread for every neighbor to have, in case there is no cease-fire the day after.

Now, if you think about that story for a moment, I think it resembles a lot of the difficult negotiations we get involved in.

Let me give you just a story, an example.

Because, after all, within living memory, they were hunters and gatherers, living pretty much like our ancestors lived for maybe 99 percent of the human story.

Let me tell you a little story from my own negotiating experience.

No, it's because of the story, because we feel personally involved in that story.

What is the story there?

Now, as anthropologists, we know that every culture has an origin story.

What's the origin story of the Middle East?

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