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Occasionally, anecdote circles don’t work. Sometimes, people don’t get a lot out of them. In the feedback session for the leadership program mentioned on Wednesday …

I am in a plane to Brisbane reflecting on the second delivery of a 2.5 day leadership program we have helped develop for the Australian …

In 2001 Shell collected a bunch of stories and put them together in a booklet now know as the Blue Book, but with the official title …

This description of sensemaking makes the most sense to me. Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that …

I’m just in the process of building up some reflections for my workshop in Boston (you’re most welcome to register and attend) in a couple of weeks …

Whenever someone asks me this question I tell them this story. One of our first narrative projects was to help a government department assess their …

Some people think a story must have a plot, character development, a protagonist, a turning point and a resolution. This might be true of a …

Ira Glass in a public radio producer and host of This American Life. In this video Ira describes the anecdote as one of the two …

Last week I returned from my morning walk to find my 11–year-old daughter filling the blender with ice cream to make a banana smoothie. My …

Have you ever been asked to find success stories and been unsure where to start? Done well success stories slide effortlessly from one teller to the …