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A Fair Dinkum Way to Get Stories

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —January 27, 2011
Filed in Business storytelling

During my first week here at Anecdote I sat in on an Anecdote Circle at a large Government Department here at Melbourne. It was the …

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Using Stories to Make Better Coffee

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —January 17, 2011
Filed in Communication, Fun

I had a throughly enjoyable afternoon on Saturday learning not only how to make great coffee, but being surrounded by stories. The course was a …

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The Otis Redding Problem

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —January 6, 2011
Filed in Employee Engagement, Fun

I stumbled across a blog post yesterday from Bob Sutton where he referred to the ‘Otis Redding Problem‘. This is where you put in place …

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How Story Collection Won the War

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —November 23, 2010
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

I recently read a fascinating account of how story collection made a real difference in America winning the Second World War (or at least their …

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Book Review: The Power of Positive Deviance

Posted by  Kevin Bishop —July 29, 2010
Filed in Collaboration

I have just finished The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin) …

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