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Annette Simmons, in her excellent book The Story Factor, warns us from adopting ‘the story voice.’ You know the one. The narrator starts by saying …

I read Bob Sutton and Jeff Pfeffer’s book, Hard Facts: Dangerous Half-thruths & Total Nonsense, and I was concerned managers would think that you could …

I’ve just returned from a couple of days in New Zealand working with my old colleagues from IBM. It was a fun to spend two …

Watching Andrew Denton interview Michael Parkinson on More Than Enough Rope on ABC television recently was a lesson in good interviewing techniques. Denton even admitted …

Just cleaning up my Bloglines and thought I would share some of the posts I was saving. Brad Hinton reflects on oral history and storytelling …

Aiden Choles has just posted a nice piece on how he used role play within an anecdote circle to collect stories. This is how it …

I was just reading Steve Denning’s latest newsletter and I noticed that he has picked up on the importance of story-listening in his latest book. …

Arjun Thomas has blogged a summary of a recent McKinsey Global Survey on ‘How Businesses are using Web 2.0″. The survey continues a theme that …

Viv McWaters has just posted an example of a story spine which reminded me of how we are using story spines in our sensemaking workshops. …

Last night I met Cris Pearson, CEO of plasq, a small group of passionalte software developers. We quickly discovered a shared interest in storytelling, albeit …