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Story week is here
The Story Week is here! Over the next 5 days, we’ll be offering you 5 stories – some momentous, some more low-key – and we’re …
Read MoreApologies
Filed in Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
Last year I wrote about how the skill to apologize will become even more valuable as the world get even more complex and speedy. Things …
Read MoreVital behaviours for knowledge sharing
My colleague Hugh Bathurst is currently working for an engineering firm helping one of the divisions develop a knowledge sharing culture. Hugh has been collecting …
Read MoreGinninderra High School Reunion—Class of 1980
I went to school in Canberra at Ginninderra High School. Amazingly I still keep in contact with so many of my classmates from back then …
Read MoreThree story plots we humans dearly love
The authors of Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath, point out that there are three story plots we humans dearly love: the creativity plot …
Read MoreAs a business person, why care about storytelling?
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Leadership Posts, Strategy
In 1993, as the co-founder of photographic library startup, I travelled to Los Angeles to check out one of America’s largest commercial photographic collections. Remarkably …
Read MoreA simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework
A while back I created a sketchcast of how I explain the Cynefin Framework and it became a popular sketch. Unfortunately Sketchcast went out of …
Read MoreHow to tell a story about yourself without sounding like an ego-maniac
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
To paraphrase Annette Simmons, “People won’t listen to you until they know who you are and what you want.” And one of the best ways …
Read MoreA leader’s role to trigger stories
Yesterday I popped out for a meeting at the National Australia Bank. They have a new CEO, Cameron Clyne, and last week he announced a …
Read MoreDoes your story have impact?
I’m working with Victoria Ward and her colleagues over at Sparknow at the moment evaluating a set of stories for their likely impact. We do …
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