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My friend, Alison Spencer, suggested I get a copy of James Harlow Brown’s book, Dangerous Undertaken, and I have to say it’s been one of …

The January ’08 cover of CIO magazine provokes an interesting thought about managing people: There’s so much to be done to bring and retain people …

Ford Harding has just posted two versions of the same anecdote. The first paints the consultant as the hero while the second focuses on the …

I run a meetup group in Melbourne call Emergence and we get together for drinks and dinner each month. Our next meeting is on the …

Expect any anecdote you tell to be tested and retested, especially if you are a politician. Barrack Obama is a storyteller par excellence and so …

Thanks to ken (one of our favourite Anecdote blog commentors) for this link of Malcolm Gladwell doing what he does best: telling a story which …

The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson is all about innovation, particularly that type of innovation which occurs when two or more different disciplines, mindsets, ways …

Regular readers of our blog are well aware of the many storytelling, business narrative and community of practice workshop we run throughout the year. But …

I was pleased to read the findings of a recent survey on employee engagement. ▪ 81% of organizations surveyed worldwide have an employee engagement practice …

Late last year I teamed up with Madelyn Blair, Terrence Gargiulo, Michael Margolis, Limor Shiponi, and Karen Dietz to start a new community of practice …