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Book review – Let’s Stop Meeting Like This
Last week Victoria Ward and I wrote an ‘essay in two voices’ giving our impressions of a book called ‘Let’s Stop Meeting Like This‘ by …
Read MoreHow to spot business storytelling training that delivers
It seems everyone is offering business storytelling training these days. It was certainly rare when we started working with stories 10 years ago but all …
Read MoreBusiness storytelling training – Melbourne, Australia
Influence without relying on authority. Build fast rapport. Change minds and inspire action. Anecdote’s Storytelling for Leaders program will teach you the techniques you need …
Read MoreWhy good storytellers are great story-listeners
Philosopher and scientist Michael Polanyi, said that “we can know more than we can tell.” When you start to look around for examples of this …
Read MoreDisgust and why we need to test business stories
It’s hard to imagine a more embarrassing situation for a teenager. And that teenager was me. Cast your mind back to the 1970s: flared jeans, …
Read MoreA small act of leadership humanity
“The biggest improvements come from small things done consistently over time in strategic places.” — David Allen A company was all travelling together to their yearly …
Read MoreWhy leaders should use real-life experiences not fables
When we started Anecdote back in 2004 we mainly did culture change projects where we collected stories in an organisation then took people from the …
Read MoreAn indicator of group fear in organisations
Over the years I’ve shown a clever little animation in our workshops to illustrate our propensity to tell ourselves stories when things are ambiguous and unclear. …
Read MoreWhy effective leaders are good storytellers
When I run our storytelling for leaders program I like to point out that effective leaders are good storytellers. I say “good” because a leader …
Read MoreHow to spot a story – a simple story framework: Infographic
With so much talk about business storytelling you’d think business people were telling more stories. Sadly we see lots of people talking about stories but …
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