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It’s how you recover when things fail that counts
Since we started Anecdote in 2004 our local Kwik Kopy in Coburg has printed most of our posters and workshop materials. Kelvin does a great …
Read MoreStrategy alignment and execution consultants: Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney Australia
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership Posts, Strategy
Anecdote helps you harness the natural power of stories to bring your strategy to life. We help you tell your strategic story and then engage …
Read MoreBusiness storytelling consultants: Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney Australia
Anecdote helps you harness the natural power of stories to bring your strategy to life. We help you tell your strategic story and then engage …
Read MoreBook review: Switch—How to Change Things When Change is Hard
It was going to be difficult to surpass their last book, Made to Stick, where they showed us that people wont pay attention unless our …
Read MoreSome tips for capturing stories on video
A few nights ago I watch Changeling starring Angelina Jolie. It’s directed by Clint Eastwood (has he ever directed a dud movie?) and I was …
Read MoreCollaboration provides autonomy
Last week I started a new Making Strategies Stick project with a large IT company. The guys I’m working with are the technical sales folk …
Read MoreLeaders should tell a story to explain why
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership Posts, Strategy
On a recent trip to Canberra I was lining up to board the plane. Behind me was a young family. Their young son, probably four …
Read MoreOne public workshop this year: influencing change with stories
We often get asked whether we are running any public courses on our techniques but for the last couple of years we have reserved these …
Read MoreKeeping richness in our decision making
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–73) was a Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist who taught at Harvard. Imagine that you went to Louis Agassiz’s laboratory at …
Read MoreThe Mahout, the Elephant and the Path—an analogy for change
Dan and Chip Heath have a new book coming out (Feb) and they sent me a copy of the first chapter. The title is Switch …
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