It’s Important In Business & Your Personal Life Early in my career a Board member gave me some advice that I didn’t quite understand at the time. He said, “life is about the stories you can tell - the better your stories are, the more people will listen to you; you have to have good stories!”.  My initial reaction was, “Stories?!...Who cares about stories?! Who has time for stories?! Just articulate the value proposition and people will have to say yes!” Boy, was I wrong . And now, in this...

The Story Leaders Must Convey To Get Their Teams To Believe I recently read an article that described the importance of a leader’s narrative - the story they share about themselves, the story they tell their team about the mission they are on collectively, and how they communicate and conduct themselves. A leader’s narrative is made up of all these things, and more, and these things form the leader’s identity.  It is the team’s belief in this narrative and identity, or their doubts thereon,...

Out of Many, Comes One I recently binge-watched the show “Pluribus”, produced by Apple TV+ studios, and created by Vince Gilligan, who also created the hit shows, “Breaking Bad”, and “Better Call Saul”.  As binge-watching would suggest, I was quite enamoured by Pluribus, because of the premise of the show, the storyline, and the excellent portrayal of the lead character, Carol Sturka, by actress Rhea Seehorn.  The cinematography in Pluribus is beautiful and consistent with what Vince Gilligan...