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Politics and narrative: why people need a human story
January 30, 2018My recent forays into political commentary have elicited a number of reactions from people who have been following my...
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Oprah for president?
January 12, 2018Today, I write once again while sitting on an airplane, this time heading for a few days of work...
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How I would have coached Mrs Clinton
December 1, 2017In the previous post, I wrote that I would begin to sketch out some examples of the type of...
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Storytelling: Everybody has a usable past
November 17, 2017Once again this week, I begin by repeating that I have every intention of coming back to writing about...
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Walking the talk: on the meaning of authenticity
August 1, 2017Our previous post closed with a story about Hamdy Khalafalla Mohamed, a bakery chef at the Cairo Marriott Hotel....
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Is sport such a poor metaphor for management?
February 23, 2017These days, when I sit down to write a blog post, there are two somewhat surprising threads running simultaneously through my...
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Can sports teach us anything worthwhile about business?
February 10, 2017Yesterday, I was reflecting a bit on how surprising one’s life can be. For example, if anyone had asked...
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Why is personal narrative so important in politics?
February 2, 2017For me as a blogger, the American presidential election and its aftermath have become a gift that just keeps...
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But can he run a country?
January 27, 2017There is a scene near the beginning of the movie Invictus in which a newly-elected President Nelson Mandela leaves home for his morning...
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How Hillary lost touch with the mainstream
January 18, 2017My two previous posts centered on Mrs Clinton’s strategy of making Donald Trump’s character flaws a central theme of the campaign....