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How to embed company values with systematic stories
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Culture, Employee Engagement
What do your organisational values actually mean? Do you have a list of 4, 5, 6 one-word, abstract concepts such as integrity, responsive and agile …
Read MoreHow to get all your executive team on the same page with your strategy
Have you ever had that feeling that your executive team is all saying they understand and support the strategy but you sense that they are …
Read MoreThe analogy story and Tim Costello
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 …
Read MoreA strategic story mustn’t be a script
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 …
Read MoreWriting oral stories
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 …
Read MoreThe world’s best business story practitioners
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 …
Read MorePulling the strategy together with a story
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 …
Read MoreHelping Big Data Scientists be Storytellers
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 …
Read MoreThe Role of Storytelling in Government
“Government managers secure the resources they need to operate not by selling products and services to individual customers, but by selling a story of …
Read MoreUsing stories to catch ‘smart-talk’
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 …
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