Stories affect a slow burn
This week I presented at the Sydney knowledge management round table and Rod Irwin, the co-ordinator of the group, remarked at just how long one …
Read MoreBoston – Storytelling for business leaders workshop – 5th June, 2012
It’s just over two weeks until I will be running our ‘Storytelling for Business Leaders’ workshop in Boston, MA. Really looking forward to my time …
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Letting a story do the work
Shawn and I have spent the last couple of days working with a client helping them create their strategic story down in the Mornington Peninsula. …
Read MoreJonathan Gottschall is turning business storytelling into a toothless tiger
Jonathan Gottschall, a literary scholar, has just written a piece for Fast Company called Why Storytelling is the Ultimate Weapon and in the process has …
Read MoreTelling Stories Puts Our Brains in Sync
Greg Stephens, Lauren Silbert and Uri Hasson are Princeton University neuroscientists who in 2010 conducted a series of experiments showing that an audience’s brains light …
Read MoreMore thoughts on why we retell stories
The following few paragraphs are part of an exercise I’m doing with Madelyn Blair. We’re writing an Essay in Two Voices, a format invented by …
Read MoreVenue announced – The Harvard Club of Boston
We can now confirm the venue for our ‘Storytelling for Business Leaders’ workshops in Boston, on the 5th June, is the Harvard Club of Boston. …
Read MoreTriggering stories and action through competition
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
When asked for the secret of his success in the steel industry, American industrialist Charles Schwab (1862-1939) always talked about using praise, not criticism, giving …
Read MoreThat’s how we do it
We’ve all heard it. “That’s how we do things around here.” It brooks no argument and is a strong signal that changing the behaviour might …
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