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Business people love structure. When I ask people after our storytelling workshops what they found most valuable, more often than not they will say they …

The word ‘story’ is vexed in business. Imagine this scene. A senior leader stands in front of his people to give a presentation on the …

Maestro Benjamin Zander – an amazingly approachable human being My wife, Kate, and I were in Boston, Massachusetts recently visiting our son Sebastian, who’s now attending university …

In 1988 I joined the database software company Oracle Systems. I worked in the Canberra sales team, where my job was to demonstrate the technical …

There’s a way to lead more effectively from anywhere in the corporate hierarchy without the benefit of the positional authority that comes in the form …

I visited Amsterdam in early April and met Paul Joosten and Ronald van Domberg. Both fabulous facilitators and both working in the story field. Within …

We judge stories we hear at work in three ways. First, is it plausible, did this really happen? Second, is this relevant, can it help …

Last week Victoria Ward and I wrote an ‘essay in two voices’ giving our impressions of a book called ‘Let’s Stop Meeting Like This‘ by …

It seems everyone is offering business storytelling training these days. It was certainly rare when we started working with stories 10 years ago but all …

At Anecdote, much of our work is focused on making strategies stick by converting them into understandable, memorable and influential stories. We often discover entrenched …