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Using a narrative-based approach to explain the failure of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
May 25, 2017In the next few posts, I plan to go deeper into my explaining my conviction that Hillary Clinton’s loss...
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Even a superficial personal narrative can be compelling: Part One
March 31, 2017In the past weeks and months, I have put forth on several occasions my opinion that neither Hillary Clinton...
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We do not inspire others by standing against things
January 5, 2017As I watched news coverage after the recent US presidential election and tried to understand what had happened, my...
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How to lose an election
December 22, 2016John Kerry’s storytelling failure: As we observed in the previous post, I noticed a similar phenomenon in the presidential...
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Hillary Clinton’s failure was as a storyteller
December 16, 2016As we saw in our previous post, Barack Obama used his personal stories—uplifting and aspirational tales garnered from his own...
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The president as master storyteller
December 1, 2016At the end of the previous post, I cited Barack Obama as an example of a public official who...
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Four things most effective leaders do on a continuous basis
April 16, 2015It seems that whenever I talk to an audience about how managers at any level of an organization can...
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Stories of purpose
March 9, 2015We ended last time with the notion that managers should take the time to think about “building their own...
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How middle managers can expand their influence
February 12, 2015After my two-week Super Bowl interlude, I’d like to go back and focus just a bit more on our...
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How to Lose Gracefully: A Leadership Lesson from the Super Bowl
February 5, 2015This week finds me doing two things I never thought I would do. First, I watched an entire Super Bowl...