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A few further lessons from Ashton Hayes
September 30, 2016This week was a busy and interesting one for me, with a steady stream of travel and consulting for...
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How the environmental movement began in Ashton Hayes
September 23, 2016In the previous post, we saw the story of a remarkable village that took a stand, deciding on its...
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A village takes a stand
September 16, 2016There is one type of leadership story that I have a particular affinity for: tales of common citizens who...
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Influencing our worlds
August 26, 2016When I was in Buenos Aires last month, one of the projects I worked on was preparing a conference with...
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Practice, spontaneity, and happenstance
August 19, 2016Writing the past few weeks about Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill caused me to think of something one...
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The making of a speaker
August 11, 2016In the last post, I wrote that true masters of rhetoric and public speaking—every one that I have either...
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Spontaneity in public speaking
August 4, 2016Last time, I closed the post with an appeal for more unscripted speeches, and for increased spontaneity in public discourse....
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The power of interaction among story, teller and listeners – part 2
July 28, 2016In our example from last time, we discussed how Martin Luther King was growing into new stories of identity, framed...