Masters of Scale

To scale, you must master the skill of storytelling, w/Charity: Water's Scott Harrison

Dec 18, 2018

47:40

Episode guests

Scott Harrison

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Inspirational storytelling inspires generosity

01:26

The Power of Storytelling

01:01

Transparency as a Solution for Charitable Giving

00:55

The Feedback Loop of Radical Transparency Boosts Your Objectives

01:59

Introduction

4min

Why Storytelling Matters

2min

How to Build Great Companies on Great Stories

2min

Master Storyteller: Scott Harrison's Charity Water Story

3min

What Would the Opposite of My Life Look Like?

2min

Photojournalism - What Is It All About?

2min

Mercy Ships - The Story of the Water Crisis in Liberia

3min

The Importance of Clean Water

2min

The Real Problem Was a Lack of Solutions

2min

10.

Hiring Hack Your Bias to Discover Your Next Great Hire

2min

11.

Scott's Master Plan for Covering the Cost of Doing Business

2min

12.

The Lifeline of Charity Water

2min

13.

Bringing the Charity Water Story to Life

2min

14.

The Challenge of Charity Water

2min

15.

Charity Water - Hope Not Guilt

2min

16.

The Power of Inspiring Story-Tell

2min

17.

The One Day of the Year - Giving Up Your Birthdays to Support Charity Water

2min

18.

Donate Your Birthday to Charity Water and Raise $30,000.

2min

19.

The Feedback Loop of Radical Transparency Boosts Your Objectives

2min

20.

Building Trust in Charity Water

2min

21.

Charity Water's Birthday Model - The Crisis of Confidence

2min

22.

The Master Storyteller

2min

23.

The Spring, 10 Years of Charity Water

2min

24.

How to Hack Your Bias and Create Space for Diverse Candidates to Shine

3min

You need a great story to build a great company. And great stories are unwaveringly true. No one embodies this principle more fully than Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water. A master storyteller, Scott built his nonprofit on 3 radical principles: (1) 100% of donations would go to water projects (not overhead). (2) Progress reports would be utterly transparent, sharing victories, defeats and even GPS coordinates of water wells. (3) The brand’s storytelling would lead with hope instead of guilt, inspiring joyful participation without sacrificing honesty.

Read a transcript of this interview at: https://mastersofscale.com/scott-harrison-to-scale-you-must-master-the-art-of-storytelling/

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