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In communicating your strategy what do your projects say?
What’s more important, what we say or what we do? I think we all know that our actions reveal what’s really important. Actions speak louder …
Read MoreKM Australia 2012
I’m presenting our story work at KM Australia this year (24-26 July) and I’ll also be taking part in the debate, which has been organised …
Read MoreAn open letter to Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
Dear Ginni, Congratulations on your appointment as IBM’s CEO. I’m looking forward to seeing how the company changes under your wise guidence. I’m writing this …
Read MoreA simple test for your strategic initiatives
Richard Rummelt, in Good Strategy / Bad Strategy, opened my eyes to a simple test to help you see if you have effective strategic initiatives. …
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5 things that happen when you know your company’s strategy
You can only act strategically, day in, day out, if you know your company’s strategy. Here are five things that happen when you really do …
Read MoreMaking the most of story-work
Filed in Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Strategy
In using story-work to build a brand, engage employees, or for one of its many other purposes, organisations nearly always focus on storytelling. The meme …
Read MoreHow we judge stories
I found myself watching parliamentary question time today on TV (OK, I was tired. I did yoga for the first time last night). There were …
Read MoreHP’s CEO loses his job for want of a strategic story
It’s quite possible you’ll lose your job as CEO if you are unable to persuasively communicate your company’s strategy. Léo Apotheker, the recently fired CEO …
Read MoreFour story-based practices to foster insight
“Insight is an unexpected shift to a better story.”–Gary Klein, Seeing What Others Don’t You can download the pdf version of this article. Shawn and …
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