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Why would you share your point BEFORE telling your story?
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling
Business storytelling is the mindful use of storytelling to make a business point. When you share your point before your story, you tell your audience why they should listen to you.
Read More117 – How a story illuminates an insight
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
Gary Klein once said, “Insight is when you unexpectedly come to a better story.” Listen to hear Shawn and Mike Adams exchange and explain the value of insight stories.
Read MoreInnovation and execution are often incompatible
Anecdote’s Chairman, Paul Honeywell, explores the difference between innovation and execution. The two areas almost always demand different skills, different people, and a different culture.
Read More116 – The client hero story in your sales example
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
It’s time to rethink the case study. Listen to hear how a success story can transform your sales process.
Read More115 – Less support gives more liberation
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
When circumstances change, the vision that brought you success in the past must also change. Listen to hear how a bra manufacturer overcame the challenges of the bra-burning movement of the 1970s.
Read More114 – Tails with the Raj of mice and men
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
Often an idea will need a reality check—can it be executed? Listen to hear how a senior leader at Microsoft discovered the impact of storytelling.
Read More113 – Low vaulting horse raises the bar
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
Attitude has a significant impact on performance. Listen to hear how a Russian gymnast went from storming out of one Olympic event to winning gold in the next.
Read More112 – FedEx helicopter story absolutely positively flies
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
If you give your employees guiding principles rather than rules, they will do amazing things. Listen to hear special guest Doug Keeley’s favourite business story of all time.
Read More111 – Apple devours Blackberry pie slice
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
Don’t get too fixed in your thinking, be ready to shift or adapt. Listen to hear how one CEO, set in his ways, caused his company’s market share to plummet.
Read More110 – Foreign ideas triggering the cultural immune system
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Corporate Storytelling, Podcast
Having an impact often depends on asking good questions. Listen to hear how the global phenomenon that is Earth Hour was born out of a question.
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