Whether you're presenting to a small group of people or a large audience your presentation must have a narrative to effectively get your points across.READ»
My last few posts on inVentiv Health (VTIV) were picked up by PDI (PDII), the competitor I compared them to in my first post. They reached out to me and I had the chance to interview PDI’s CEO, Nancy Lurker. What she shared with me ...READ»
Picking the right scale for your mission is an art. Define your purpose too narrowly and soon run out of aspirations to fill. Set your sights too high and you risk de-motivating your people. To illustrate this concept, I want to ...READ»
Michael Margolis is a story/brand/marketing expert with the emphasis on story. He once brought me in to an engagement he had with an international hotel, helping revitalize the brand of one of their chains by doing a customized story ...READ»
For a while, rumors suggested that iRiver would enter the e-reader battle, and now an image and specs have surfaced for its Story device that looks like iRiver's not just joining the battle--it's leaping in to the fray, guns blazing. ...READ»
As I was recently rearranging my “ridiculously-way-over-stuffed-I-need-to-straighten-this-thing-out”bookshelf, I noticed over a dozen books scattered about; books on story,personal storytelling and organizational ...READ»
Most of my work is with senior managers and executives, helping them to implement large-scale change using participation and engagement to create buy-in and support.There are three conditions that require change leaders to shift from ...READ»
Idea to innovation. Time to market. Scrap heap or bestseller. For your innovation or idea to make it through the stage gate, gauntlet, market, etc. it has to be communicated. It needs a story. Stories help people understand the ...READ»
Steve Denning is the world leader in organizational storytelling. He has written five books on the subject. The Financial Times chose his book, The Secret Language of Leadership, as one of the best business books of 2007, and wrote: ...READ»
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a pomegranate farmer who couldn't get anyone to buy his fruit, because it was so leathery-skinned and strange-looking, and so difficult to get the tiny seeds out. The farmer knew that pomegranates are even ...READ»
Earlier this year, prankster group Improv Everywhere staged
an event called "Frozen Grand Central," in which the participants
synchronized their watches, and at a prearranged moment they all froze in place
in the middle ...READ»
While many of the projects I work on at Learning Worlds are about communicating ideas using visual narratives, it's the localization (or L10n) part that I think about the most. Unlike the act of translating text in a document, the ...READ»
An important component of the work we do at Rassak is recognizing and working around the fact that the audiences our customers aim to connect with are frazzled beyond belief. That's life... we're all busy and not necessarily paying ...READ»
Virtual reality meet actual reality ....
My 10-year old (that's him messing with me in the photo) loves
soccer (playing, watching, and reading about the game). He also loves
soccer video games, including playing manager, ...READ»
