Overcoming entrenched views using stories

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 10, 2014
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

We’re all rational beings, aren’t we? If I want to convince you of something, surely I just need the necessary facts or a convincing argument? …

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How to accelerate your graduates’ experience

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 7, 2014
Filed in Business storytelling

Most professional firms, such as those centred on engineers, lawyers, doctors, accountants and information technologists, employ graduates in programs that last from 12 months to …

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Storytelling for Leaders – Perth

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 6, 2014
Filed in Events

We are pleased to announce that we have a new partner in Western Australia, Tim Wise. Tim is a highly successful businessman, business coach and …

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Storytelling for Leaders workshop in Los Angeles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 6, 2014
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, News

In 92 days we’ll be running Storytelling for Leaders workshop in Los Angeles. I’m looking forward to this week in LA because I’ll have just …

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A strategic approach to organisational narratives

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 17, 2013
Filed in Strategy

Narratives are a connected set of stories that together form a bigger story, one with a beginning, middle and end. It’s a bit like a …

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Changing a keystone habit – the story of Alcoa

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 16, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling

Sometimes the best way to affect large-scale change is to focus on changing one important habit, what Charles Duhigg calls a keystone habit. Here is …

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Yammer’s Steve Hopkins on Storytelling for Leaders

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 10, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling

Why not join us for a public version of the workshop Steve is talking about in Perth on the 4th March. Click here for more …

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An example of business oral storytelling

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 10, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

Here at Anecdote we focus on oral storytelling. Our network of partners around the world help leaders find and tell business stories to influence, engage …

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The story of the checklist

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 7, 2013
Filed in Business storytelling

Sometimes the simplest interventions can have the biggest impact. In October 1935, US Army Air Corps brass gathered at an airfield in Dayton, Ohio. They’d …

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