Archive for Sustainable Storytelling

Grow Your Business Storytelling Skills by Listening to Park’s Book: Brand Bewitchery

You are interested in growing your leadership and business storytelling skills because you know how powerful stories are to motivate people to action… If you read Park Howell’s book Brand…

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Storytelling: The Jiu-Jitsu of Leadership Communications

Harness these 32 Principles of Jiu-Jitsu to Win With Your Business Storytelling I not only just read Rener Gracie’s new book, The 32 Principles: Harness the Power of Jiu-jitsu to…

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A Poetic Example of an “Inverted ABT” to Power Your Business Storytelling

Leveraging the Three Forces of Story of Agreement, Contradiction and Consequence One of my favorite things about teaching business, sales and marketing professionals about the ABT (And, But, Therefore) agile…

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Create Effective Business Presentations With the Business of Story Framework

You Have One Job With Your Sales & Marketing Presentations: Move Your Audience to Action Quickly My storytelling career really began in 2006 when I studied the craft in earnest.…

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How to Spot ABTs in the Wild to Strengthen Your Communications

Three years ago, I asked my 95-year-old mother if she had ever noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo. “What are you talking about,” she asked. I grabbed a FedEx…

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6 Soul-sucking Business Communications Problems and How to Overcome Them

How to use one storytelling framework to overcome common miscommunication challenges Imagine that you have a growing company and you are particularly pleased with Sarah who joined your operations team…

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Three Dreaded Assumptions That Derail Business Communications

Legend has it that in 1517, Spanish Conquistadors exploring the Yucatán Peninsula asked the indigenous Mayan people the name of the region. The Mayans responded, Tectetán, which sounded like Yucatán…

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New Study Finds Miscommunication is Costing American Businesses $1.2 Trillion Annually

A new report on the state of business communication by Harris Poll on behalf of Grammarly surveyed 251 business leaders and 1,001 knowledge workers in the U.S. to find out…

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How You Can Get the Upper-hand on Coronavirus

Let’s face it (don’t touch yours, by the way), one of the most powerful ways you can defeat the coronavirus which causes the filthy Covid-19 disease is literally in the…

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How a Souring Apple Industry Ripened a Burgeoning Wine Region

You know the adage “Give me lemons and I’ll make lemonade.” But it also applies to apples. When the apple market went south in the early 1990’s, orchardists around Lake Chelan in…

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