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I’ve recently had the pleasure of working with World Vision Australia. In case you don’t know them, they’re Australia’s largest charity, and they focus on …

Smart people hate to be told what to do or say. Yet way too often leaders are given a standard set of powerpoint slides or …

When you see a poem you know it’s a poem. When you see a screenplay you know it’s a screenplay. Most people, however, have never …

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with some terrific business story practitioners. And because we love to know who are …

Last week I flew to Vienna to help a pharmaceutical company develop their strategy. It was a two day event. We used the first day …

We’ve said often on this blog that you just don’t get the benefits of storytelling (meaning, memory, caring) unless you are telling a story. Over …

  “Government managers secure the resources they need to operate not by selling products and services to individual customers, but by selling a story of …

He looks the part; he knows all the right buzzwords; he can quote chapter-and-verse from all the best-known pundits and practitioners. But is it all …

Leaders should find and tell stories to help their people understand the concrete actions needed to get a job done, enact a business value or …

Herb Kelleher [the longest-serving CEO of Southwest] once told someone, “I can teach you the secret to running this airline in thirty seconds. This is …