Anecdote - Making Strategy Stick
Tell it like it is from HR Monthly
HRMonthly have given me permission to make Tell it like it is available online. It was first published in HRMonthly, December 2004. HRMonthly is published for the Australian Human Resources Institute
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Column Two Says:
December 7th, 2004 at 10:43 pm
Tell it like it is
Shawn Callahan has written an article on the use of anecdotes in the corporate environment. To quote: It’s a workplace anecdote. A worker is talking about their life at work, about how they get things done, who they work with…
logan otiose Says:
January 19th, 2005 at 8:54 am
Hi I’d like to tell it like it is:
the way that it is is that when someone tells a stroy about work, they are just tellinging it like it is, you know water cooler talk and all that, that’s just how it is, it’s like when you know you have a review coming up but you just gotta tell the guys at the cooler what went down last weekend thats just telling it like it is, that’s why I think the internet is so good because now there is an effective venue to really expose how it really works, you know, it’s like Postman said, you gotta really be entertaining to be on television. Man he was just telling it like it is.
thanks,
Logan