Blog

I was in Singapore last week helping a group of leaders learn how to find and tell their own stories. No templates, no recipes, just …

A couple of years ago I spoke at a BHP Billiton planning day. My talk was at the end of the day so I sat …

Many (most?) of our conversations in the workplace are transactional: in fact they are not conversations at all. In the October issue of Anecdotally, we …

Most organisations have a set of values statements. Many of these do not reflect reality as displayed in the behaviours of people within the organisation. …

Last week Mark and I agreed to each develop a plan detailing how we were going to meet our targets. I opened up Excel and …

People respond so differently to new ideas. While some people jump with excitement at the thought of new possibilities and irrational ideas, unfamiliarity can others …

Marketing folk confuse me sometimes. For example, they talk about brand stories yet they forget the story bit. For example, if you Google the phrase …

I spent a fair bit of Thursday at the Melcrum Strategic Communications Summit in Sydney, where one of our clients was presenting on the use …

Do you remember where you were when you first saw the those two jumbo jets plunge into the World Trade Center? How well do you …

My friend Jackie hated having Nancy as her manager. She thought her to be cold, insensitive and overbearing and had, in the past, tried twice …