You are responsible for leading a change management project and you believe in that change. Carol Dweck, a researcher at Stanford University describes this belief as a Growth mindset.
Contrary to your Growth Mindset, there are people with a Fixed Mindset who don’t believe in the change you wish to implement and are surreptitiously second-guessing and undermining everything you are…
We like to think that when we take medication, it has an unfailing ability to get to where it is required in the body to treat the illness. But do you know, the cells we are trying to treat themselves can block entry to the drug because they think it’s something foreign and potentially harmful. Basically, I don’t know you, I don’t…
This is our 3rd blog on Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations
For those who have missed Part 1 and Part 2, the questions I answer in Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations blog series are questions I have been asked by clients. So, this blog series is a curation of answers to those questions.
In this blog we will answer only 1…
This is part 2 of our Storytelling Techniques for Transforming Presentations Blog series.
In Part 1 of this blog series, we answered questions that generally run through our minds even before we start putting our presentations together. In this blog, we share some learnings which are centered around delivering the story. I have yet to come across any literature on Storytelling that…
You may know how to craft a story or presentation well but presenting it effectively is a different skill altogether. A well-crafted story that is delivered poorly is like a vintage wine drunk out of plastic airline cup.
How you deliver your story can significantly change your desired outcome. You may have amazing verbal skills but you can very easily fail as…
The evolution of brand stories can be categorized in three stages.
Fiction Stage: Brands crafting fictitious stories to trigger emotions have become a very popular way to connect the brand to the consumer. The connection occurs because they aim to trigger an emotion which matches and reinforces the consumer’s world view. As a result of triggering emotions the brand story is felt,…
Happy Birthday Apple!
We all know Apple as one of the finest technology brands but apart from technology lessons Apple has taught us some psychology lessons too.
On Apple’s 38th Birthday today, as a Business of Stories, I want to share one of the best told stories from Steve Jobs that I have enjoyed, learned, applied and benefited from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI
After watching…
What I want you to do is to go back to how you felt on the first day of your job. You probably felt a mixture of excitement and uncertainty. You would have had an orientation and got to know a lot of exciting things through orientation. One of the topics flashed on the orientation slides would have been ‘Company Values’. You…
We have 2 reasons to celebrate and 1 issue to fix today.
Happy 60th Birthday Steve Jobs (you are still more alive than some who are actually alive) and Happy Maiden Ruckusmaker day.
This morning, the first thing I read was Seth’s Blog on Ruckusmaker Day. The blog ended with these lines.
Commit to articulating your point of view on one relevant…