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In our work to help organisations make their strategies stick we often start by helping the executives get clear on their purpose. Why does their …

Last year Terrence Gargiulo and I delivered a webinar in the triple threat of storytelling. It was really popular and we had a great time …

When we started Anecdote in 2004 our web presence consisted entirely of this blog. We gradually built content, and a following, but every now and …

In a fast paced workplace dominated by tasked focussed folk hell bent on ticking boxes and creating outputs, it can be difficult to get your …

In the 1970s Irene Pepperberg was studying for her PhD at Harvard in theoretical chemistry but wasn’t really loving it. Then she learned about the …

This evening I was reading Business Model Generation (thanks Tom Graves for sending me a copy). It’s an approach for designing your business model and …

When you go hunting for a story, for say a presentation you’re about to give, you’re taking something that normally lives and breathes in an …

For change to stick it’s often a good idea to find where things are working and then figure out how to get those successful behaviours …

People know us as the story guys and as more and more people realise that it’s effective to include stories in their presentations the number …

Just in case you haven’t seen this animation it’s worth the 10 minutes to learn about Dan Pink’s findings on what really motivates us.