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Be careful who you despise
My friend Jackie hated having Nancy as her manager. She thought her to be cold, insensitive and overbearing and had, in the past, tried twice …
Read MoreIn defence of gossip
Gossip is badly maligned in business, but that’s because most of us only have a limited understanding of the concept. For example, gossip is merely …
Read MoreThree new storytelling workshops for this year: Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney
By popular demand, we’ve just added three more Storytelling for Leaders workshops. They’ll be held in these Australian cities: Melbourne, 23 September 2008 Sydney, 2 …
Read MoreAnecdote turns four
Today is Anecdote’s fourth birthday. Hip hip hooray! Wow, where did those years go? I still clearly remember going to the ASIC office four years …
Read MoreIndividual intelligence can lead to collective stupidity
I am reviewing Fred Kofman’s book ‘Conscious Business’ subtitled ‘How to build value through values. He uses a soccer game to illustrate ‘a puzzling paradox’ …
Read MoreEmbedding customer service stories
A company that values customer service should be teeming with customer service stories. But what do you do if this is not the case? The …
Read MoreDon’t lecture, tell a story
Rather than give a lecture to his fellow comedian, Jerry Seinfeld tells a story to convey his message. This clip is from Jerry’s documentary, Comedian, …
Read MoreScientific America takes note of storytelling
I was excited to see the current issue of Scientific America has an article on storytelling called The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a …
Read MoreStaff induction – not quite
Last year Robyn and I ran an interesting project for a large government agency to help Aboriginal people join the department and become productive as …
Read MoreSeeing the Big Picture: Blind Men and the Elephant
It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by …
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