Stories can inspire, persuade, and transform mundane into memorable. These qualities can make storytelling a potent tool for deception. But a story can also act as a sanity check, a way of confirming and even augmenting one’s understanding. As a leader, you can use stories to frame problems and motivate. What’s your team’s mission? What will happen if you don’t achieve it? What will happen when you do? What are the obstacles you’ve overcome, and what lies ahead? The answers to these questions...