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Dynamic interaction of story, teller and listeners
July 14, 2016As I wrote in the last post, it was my coaching of others that caused me to discover how...
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Reflections on storytelling and self-image
July 7, 2016In the last post, I made reference to one of the core concepts of both my consulting work and...
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Stories create leaders as much as leaders create stories
July 1, 2016If one studies the great leaders of history, one often observes a synergistic relationship between leader and story. As...
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The stories we shape will also shape us
June 23, 2016This week, one of my favorite reflections about storytelling—from the recently departed British novelist Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)—came to mind:...
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How Martin Luther King prepared himself to improvise
June 2, 2016Recently, as I was reading through some notes I took about Martin Luther King during my doctoral study, I...
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How Leaders Use Personal Stories to Make a Tangible Difference
May 12, 2016The forthcoming book that I referred to in the last post—about how individuals use their personal stories of identity...
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A quandary about my next book
May 6, 2016Other than a hectic travel schedule and my recent philosophical ramblings—on Albert Camus, Sisyphus, Marcel Proust, and the like—a...
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Reasons to Smile at Work
March 17, 2016These days, several elements seem to be conspiring to encourage me to extend our “visit” to the winery of...
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Tapping into my own human spirit
February 19, 2016When I began my meanderings into the realm of Greek mythology last week—my rumination on Sisyphus and existential philosophy,...
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Co-creating our difference (continued)
January 21, 2016Since people often ask me for specifics about how to co-create, with their teams, stories of “how and why...