The StoryBank
Stories have impact. When we use them in our business conversations, they make our messages clear and memorable. We are all great storytellers, but we can't be a one-story wonder. This podcast is designed to help you build your story collection.
The StoryBank
Latest Episodes
Episode 155 – No One Briefed The Gorilla – Prepare Then Let Go
Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned one hundred years old.No one alive has done more to make ordinary people like me fall in love with the natural world.A man with a microphone and a camera crew and an extraordinary gift fo...
Episode 154 – AI Needs Fresh Eyes – Walk out the door and come back in
Every good leader knows how to manage change. New processes, new structures, new tools etc. These are hard, but they're familiar.But AI is asking for something far more challenging. It's not asking us to learn a new tool. It's asking us...
Episode 153 – The Man Who Said No – Human in the loop
IC has been reading this book by Ethan Mollick called 'Co-Intelligence', and there's this really interesting paradox he talks about.You'd think that now that AI can look up facts, write code, summarise research, basically do all the "bo...
Episode 152 – The Bad News Office – Don’t trust good news
Most leaders I work with assume their teams tell them the truth. After all, they have open-door policies. They say, "Bring me bad news early”. And they mean it.Yet somehow, the bad news comes late. Or softened. Or not at all. Not becaus...
Episode 151 – The Streetlamp Trap – The Harder Question
Is there a lesson we can learn from the demise of Encyclopaedia Britannica on how organisations should deal with AI?Since its first publication in 1768, until the early 1990s, Britannica ruled the encyclopaedia market. A 32-volume set, ...
