Personal leadership is at the core of my new project, StoryLeader™. My premise is that in a world where effective leadership is more of a team sport, great leaders are the kind who work to develop their teams with good leadership qualities of their own. Let’s talk about which leadership […]
Storytelling
Business Storytelling
Business storytelling is the act of using story as a way to interact with others to convey business values and/or business information. I like to say that “story is the best unit of memory” (tweetable) and that’s because the goal of business storytelling is to help information stick, both internally […]
People Need Brevity in Stories in 2020 and Beyond
It seems that when people try to communicate, they mostly try to push the most stuff they can into our heads at one time. We say that business storytelling is very important but we don’t teach people how to do it. In the absence of instructions, a lot of people […]
Why Business Storytelling is a Necessary Tool for 2020 and Beyond
Whenever someone tells you “stories are an important part of leadership,” you do what most people do: you nod and shrug and wonder what the heck anyone means by that. And yet, we use stories informally every day. Your business meeting with prospects breaks for lunch and what do you […]
It's Time to Rethink What People Need to Learn
Sandra told me that her cousin shared an article about how schools were no longer teaching analog time telling in school. Wait. They were until now? Why? We Really Have to Crash the Whole Platform Whether we’re talking about kids in school or grown ups in the workplace, it feels […]