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Apologies
Filed in Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
Last year I wrote about how the skill to apologize will become even more valuable as the world get even more complex and speedy. Things …
Read MoreThree story plots we humans dearly love
The authors of Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath, point out that there are three story plots we humans dearly love: the creativity plot …
Read MoreAs a business person, why care about storytelling?
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling, Leadership Posts, Strategy
In 1993, as the co-founder of photographic library startup, I travelled to Los Angeles to check out one of America’s largest commercial photographic collections. Remarkably …
Read MoreA simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework
A while back I created a sketchcast of how I explain the Cynefin Framework and it became a popular sketch. Unfortunately Sketchcast went out of …
Read MoreHow to tell a story about yourself without sounding like an ego-maniac
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership Posts
To paraphrase Annette Simmons, “People won’t listen to you until they know who you are and what you want.” And one of the best ways …
Read MoreA leader’s role to trigger stories
Yesterday I popped out for a meeting at the National Australia Bank. They have a new CEO, Cameron Clyne, and last week he announced a …
Read MoreWhat is the leader’s role?
I was reading a presentation on collaborative behaviours in nursing and came across this great quote. “The most critical aspect of leadership is the desire …
Read MoreSocial media demands honesty
I spent a fair bit of Thursday at the Melcrum Strategic Communications Summit in Sydney, where one of our clients was presenting on the use …
Read MoreThe pond metaphor
Here is something I have meant to post about for a while. It is a metaphor in the book ‘Dangerous Undertaking‘ by James Harlow Brown. …
Read MoreInternal blogging builds trust in leadership
In a blog post of 9 June over on The Melcrum Blog, Abi Signorelli describes how leaders in her organisation were blogging internally and how …
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