Sunday mornings is a favourite time of the week for me. I get up early and go walking with my friend Darren Woolley. The conversation is always lively and last Sunday I mentioned to Darren that I thought it was interesting that ambiguous stories seem to linger in my mind much longer than stories with a […]

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John Hagel has written an interesting post on the importance of narratives in providing persistent context for our lives, organisations and society. The post is important because John is an esteemed thinker that business and institutions notice and heed. And it is also this reason that I’m prompted to write this reply because I feel […]

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I’m reading an advance copy of Andrew O’Keeffe’s new book ‘Hardwired Humans: Successful Leadership Using Human Instincts’. I am looking forward to meeting Dr Jane Goodall when she launches the book on June 6. One of the human instincts, ‘emotion before reason’ tells us that emotions play a huge role in our decision making. We […]

A nice storytelling cliff hanger to get us to click. From NeuroCooking Save Rock Creek Hills Park! Posted: 08 May 2011 02:26 PM PDT We have been writing here less often, NeuroCooking friends, because another topic has been occupying us lately, a great deal really, since the night of April 28th, when, out of the blue, […]

Last few days…. Leaders can dramatically improve their ability to inspire, influence and engage both staff and customers by tapping into the natural power of stories. We haven’t run our Storytelling for Leaders workshop publicly for several years and have focussed on delivering it internally for clients. This month represents your only opportunity in 2011 […]

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Why would one of the world’s foremost business storytelling experts say he was going to use storytelling to convey his message and then not tell a story? Reading my email this morning I was excited to receive Steve Denning’s latest newsletter. In it he tells us about how TED has thrown open its doors and […]

“I only have a few minutes to get my message across, I just haven’t got time to tell a story.” This is a comment we often hear this when we are running one of our Storytelling for Business Leaders courses. I don’t believe having limited time, or a short amount of copy space, however is […]