E11 – The Power Of Metaphors
This is a story from an experiment conducted in 2011 by Paul Thibodeau from the University of Stanford and Lera Boroditsky from the University of California. They wanted to check whether metaphors influence the way we reason and the way we search for more…
E10 – ROI OF BUSINESS STORYTELLING
You are about to read the two stories that I use when people ask me what is the ROI of business storytelling. My answer to them is Rs. 1400 and 28 times. Let me share the two stories of how I got to these numbers………
E09 – Gloves
This story is based in early 2000 and it’s about John Stegner a procurement executive in a company called John Deere the company that makes farm equipment construction and forestry equipment, etc. John Stegner was pretty convinced that…
E08 – Of Linux And Gold Mines
This story is about a Canadian Gold mining company, a contracting gold market and a keystone mine in Ontario called GoldCorp. Rob McEwen, the CEO of the company was quite a maverick. He came…
E07 – What A First Day At Work !
This story is about a guy called Ben Sliney and his first day at work. Ben had applied for the job of the Federal Aviation Chief and in an interview, he had asked several times whether he would have complete authority…
E06 – The Makeshift Leaderboard
I was reminded about this story because of something that happened recently. I had posted that my book “Stories At Work”, had hit number three and a friend of mine, a well-wisher said you shouldn’t be…
E05 – Of Food Carts & Riots
In 2007 during the 2nd Iraq war, American generals were posted throughout the country to maintain law and order in Iraq. In a small town called Tikrit, an American general observed that the biggest problem…
E04 – ‘THE’ Bruce Springsteen Concert
Bruce Springsteen, as you readers might know, is a famous American singer and songwriter who did a lot of live music shows. His shows are very energetic, and he doesn’t take a break goes from the beginning to end. He is known to lose…
E01 – The missing holes
In World War II, there were a lot of planes that used to come down
due to anti-aircraft fire…….