Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
3 reasons why certain stories really resonate
This week I’ve been at the Middle East Leadership Communication Conference in Abu Dhabi. I ran a Storytelling for Leaders workshop and gave a keynote …
Read MoreChanging a keystone habit – the story of Alcoa
Sometimes the best way to affect large-scale change is to focus on changing one important habit, what Charles Duhigg calls a keystone habit. Here is …
Read MoreDynamic tension and team success
Earlier this week Shawn sent me an email. “You must see Steve Jobs: The Lost interview. It’s available on iTunes” (its the movie, not the …
Read MoreEmployee engagement – good intentions are not enough
My engineering friends would say it like this … good intentions are a necessary but insufficient condition for success. In my working life I have …
Read MoreFired up and ready to go
I was in Singapore last week helping a group of leaders learn how to find and tell their own stories. No templates, no recipes, just …
Read MoreFinding and amplifying a sense of direction—directional stories
This week I have been talking to people about foundational stories and how they are important for reinforcing the core vales and direction for everyone …
Read MoreAnecdotes: transcribed or documented
Obviously anecdotes play a key role in our work. We use these real life business stories to help people see patterns that typically remain hidden using traditional …
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