We have been helping organisations transform their strategies into concrete and memorable narratives for quite a few years now. In every organisation we’ve worked with – no exceptions – there have been powerful stories already circulating in the organisation that run counter to the new strategy. In most cases, these stories have been strong enough […]

I am very pleased to announce that I will be running one of our world renowned ‘Storytelling for Business Leaders’ workshops in Wellington, New Zealand on the 1st February, 2012 I am very much looking forward to coming ‘home’ to New Zealand and passing on some of the skills and knowledge I have picked up […]

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Came across this wonderful infographic on the differences between business storytelling versus corporate speak. Anyone have anything to add?

Steve Jobs introduced iCloud at Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference in June 2011 . iCloud is Apple’s ‘next big thing’. After explaining the iCloud concept, Steve says, “Now, you might ask ‘why should I believe them – they’re the ones that brought me MobileMe?’” The audience laughs uproariously. Everyone in the audience knows that MobileMe is […]

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“Insight is an unexpected shift to a better story.”–Gary Klein, Seeing What Others Don’t You can download the pdf version of this article. Shawn and Mark wrote this article for the Storytelling for Insight workshop that that was held in Singapore in 2011 with Gary Klein and Patrick Lambe and featured in Gary Klein’s book, […]

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