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IMAGINATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
What role do you think imagination plays in our organizations?My family’s recent trip to Disneyland tickled my imaginationIt’s a small world is stilling vivid for me. So many beautiful countries,...
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Opera Wows Kids!!
Our pilot project in partnership with the Metropolitan Opera HD Live in Schools was a rewarding and rich event. I've pulled together a short four minute documentary that tells the story of our work and...
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Organizational Discombobulation
Are things falling apart all around you? Have you been hit with discombobulation? This fast paced video turns our prevalent notions of sense making on its head. It’s always bothered me that when we...
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Organizational Renewal
Do you ever feel like your organizational environment needs to be vitalized? In the face of fatigue and deterioration what does renewal look like?Are we cursed by our propensity for forgetting or are...
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Radio Interview with Coach Judy Nelson
A Truly Kindred Spirit...Saturday, June 7th I had the pleasure of being a guest on Coach Judy Nelson BlogRadio show. I became connected with Judy through a mutual friend, Carol Biddle who is the...
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Organizational Clarity
Are you enamored with black and white approximations of life? Don’t our lives in organizations depend on these holy grails of homeostasis? Is your sense of equilibrium and equality governed by stable...
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A TRIBUTE TO MY FIRST FENCING COACH
In Loving Memory of Dr. Milton BankSome of you know I spent over 25 years as a competitive fencer (and with a fair amount of success). My first fencing coach Dr. Bank passed away two weeks ago. On...
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Organizational Responsibility
Is it possible to adopt a new paradigm? Who's to blame? Things go wrong and someone’s got to take the hit right?Inspired by recent events with BP and other corporate calamities I put together this two...
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It's a Marathon - Not Magic - New Webinar
Last year Shawn Callahan and I delivered a webinar in the triple threat of storytelling. It was really popular and we had a great time doing it.Well we're back for another webinar, this time we're...
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Something Funny Happened on my Way to the Apple Store...
I opened my email this morning and had a funny email from Apple. It's a great example of how the right idea executed poorly can do more harm than good. In my case no harm has been done. I am sharing it...
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Exploring the Boundaries of Stories & Organizational Respect
How Can We Engender Respect & Attention With Our Stories?I’ve always been fascinated with how stories connect with one another. For most of us who are not natural performers or orators telling a...
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How to Make a Corporate Roast Work
I got a lot of great emails and questions from folks about a group process I use with companies. In my last video, I shared a story about an intervention I sometimes using involving leaders standing in...
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Learnings from Webinar with Shawn Callahan & Participants
Flexing Your Business Storytelling Muscles with Deliberate PracticesCollaborating with other story practitioners is a special treat. When Shawn Callahan and I of Anecdote regroup to share our latest...
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Organizational Engagement
HOW DO YOU ENGAGE YOUR EMPLOYEES?I just returned from a wonderful conference in Singapore on Business Narrative. During one of the many rich dialogs with peers I stumbled upon a word I hadn't used in a...
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Nancy Duarte's New Book Resonate
Think about what happens when you strike a pitch fork and then bring another one close to it. The second dormant fork picks up the vibrations of the other. The two forks begin sharing the same...
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Organizational Light
Can you envision your organization shedding light into the world?We’re precious in how we do what we do…nothing needs to be without the simple clean intention to be and give the most we can. Even in...
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Welcoming the New Year - Tidbits from the Arts
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!I can't believe it's 2011. As I look back on 2010 I am gratified by all of the new content I created and offered with folks. Some wonderful collaborations - and some personal...
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Future Possibilities: Organizational Elasticity
Do we make opportunities for people in organizations to expand in flexible ways to create new spaces of value generation…And do we at the same time combine agility with the requisite structures of...
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Organizational Priorities
What are the priorities in your organization? Are you caught in the cogs of performance pressure? Has constant acceleration become a way of life in your organization?A recent experience with dolphins...
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Organizational Judgment
Judgments separate us from others. They hold us secure and tight in assumed positions of superiority.What if we let the scaffolding of being judgmental drop away?Can we really halt our knee jerk...
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An Analysis of a Storied Approach to Crafting Influential Messages
Terrence Gargiulo's 2011 Commencement AddressA Little Background Story for Context…Forty years ago I found myself at the first of many interesting educational crossroads. New to Monterey, California my...
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"Go With the Flow..."
Sounds groovy to say, “Go with the flow” but what does it mean?Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talks about flow as being in the moment. What does this really mean? How might it be relevant for the day to day...
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Interview with Jay Cross on 21st Century Leadership & Stories
During Jay Cross's trip to Monterey I had a chance to catch up and learn about his new work on 21st Century Leadership Skills. Of course we had to talk about a stories.Jay posted this blog with a few...
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Organizational Will
What is the role of will in organizations? How much can we direct and control? 1001 faces and hands are at work molding our destiny...whether it be inside of an organizations, our individual fates, or...
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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on Michelle Romanica's BlogRadio show on Customer Experience.How stories come into play with customer experience is a rich area to explore. Our...
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