Hey Mom! Hey Dad! Storytelling anyone? (Psst..An AI Website can help)
(NOTE: Dear Mom, Dear Dad, the details of the website is embedded in the article) “I hate mathematics”, said my wife. “That is because you had a bad maths teacher”, I responded. This conversation has been oft repeated in our household. What was “bad” about her math teacher was no narratives just numbers. Mine told […]
A Beginner’s guide to Storytelling
I stumbled onto this video online. Please don’t ask me how. I just stumble from one link to the other and down the rabbit hole. Most often, it is a wild goose chase, but sometimes, it lands me on something interesting. This is a video of a tour guide who runs a website called beabetterguide.com. […]
The Power Of Storytelling To Fight The Climate Crisis
This article appeared in Forbes in January 2022. The Power Of Storytelling To Fight The Climate Crisis Carmine Gallo (Author of numerous books, including Talk Like Ted, The Storyteller’s Secret, The Bezos Blueprint). MY SUMMARY The article discusses the importance of storytelling in addressing the climate crisis and inspiring action. It highlights the insights of […]
Employer Branding – A story at a time
Imagine this is 1992, you are a 2nd year student and you have just received a 5 page letter from a friend who is one batch senior to you. Your friend has just spent the first 2 months of an 18 month training program at one of the leading FMCG companies in the country. A […]
This is not one of the seven wonders of the world
Did you recognise the picture above? What a stupid question, right? Wrong. This is not a picture of one of the seven wonders of the world.
Only perfect practice makes perfect
I was practicing in a bunker down in Texas and this good old boy with a big hat stopped to watch. The first shot he saw me hit went in the hole. He said, “You got 50 bucks if you knock the next one in.” I holed the next one. Then he says, “You got […]
Managing Change – a story at a time
As I write this, Amazon.in throws up 28,775 search results for “books on change management” in the Business, Strategy and Management section alone. This is clearly an area of struggle and concern for most leaders. I remember reading a Dilbert comic strip once where the pointy haired boss informs everyone in a meeting: “We’re hiring […]
Untangling messy people issues through story listening
Sujit Nair was perplexed. Last year, the global consulting firm he worked for had invested a considerable sum in measuring employee engagement. The survey had helped the firm identify four areas that offered potential for improvement. It told them these areas were important to their people but it didn’t tell them what was driving the […]
Power of Stories in Business – Episode 3 – Stories make sense of complexity
In this third module, I talk about one more reason why stories are so powerful in business – stories help make us sense of complexity. All people issues like leadership, culture, trust etc are messy complex issues and cannot be solved with the approach that works for markets and machines. I use Dave Snowden’s Cynefin […]
Power of Stories in Business – Episode 2 – Stories Inspire Action
In this second module, I talk about the challenge of the current mindset about stories in business, my definition of a story and the the first of the many reasons why stories are so powerful in business. Because stories inspire action. This was also covered in an article https://www.storyworks.in/blog/?p=257