Welcome to the Story Rules Content Hub – the second best resource to learn all about storytelling techniques for work (after ‘Story Rules‘, my comprehensive book on the topic!).
In this Hub, Here’s where you get rich storytelling examples, analyses, viewpoints, interview nuggets, visuals, quotes, and much, much more. To find out how you can make the most of this resource, please watch this 12-minute video.
You can explore this (for now free!) resource in four ways:
I know, I know – it’s been ages since the last episode of the podcast. But the way I’m looking at this initiative is that I’m building these knowledge assets for the long term. More than a regular cadence, I’m just looking to create a base of content that is valuable and timeless. Meanwhile, I’m excited to release the next episode of my podcast – with Paul Smith. Paul Smith is the bestselling author of books such as ‘Lead with a Story’, ‘Sell with a Story’ and ‘The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell’. Paul specialises in what I term as ‘human stories’ – …
This week our headline article is a tweet thread – a data-story on the changing nature of Hollywood box-office hits. Article/s of the week a. A tweet thread on Hollywood’s box-office hits by Eric Krebs Movies are fun (and relatively easy) to research. Each movie is a clear, discrete product. You can categorise them across hundreds of possible aspects. And financial success is easy to measure. Which makes it an analyst’s dream. Freelance writer Eric Krebs uses those factors to his advantage in this eye-opening analysis of how the composition of box-office hits has changed in US. There are two …
This week our headline article is a fascinating dive into Spain’s history by Tomas Pueyo. Article/s of the week a. ‘A brief history of Spain’ by Tomas Pueyo How do you start a tweet thread about the history of Spain, a country of just about 46M people (think Delhi+Mumbai combined), but one whose language is spoken by 600M around the world? You create a compelling hook. Here’s how Tomas Pueyo starts his thread: Source: Tomas Pueyo tweet That’s right – Spain’s greatest legacy to the world is its language. Almost all of the nations of Central and South America (except Brazil) and a …
This week our headline article is a short yet deeply insightful piece by Morgan Housel. Article/s of the week a. ‘Reality Catches Up’ by Morgan Housel You complete an MBA/engineering degree and are looking for a job. Guess what – you win the job market lottery! How? Because you have graduated at the peak of a boom cycle. You get a job with an unheard of starting salary. That sounds like a great thing to have, right? An asset as it were. Morgan Housel has a different point of view. An asset you don’t deserve can quickly become a liability. …
This week I’m profiling a short but impactful book on the power of coaching. Book of the week a. ‘The Coaching Habit’ by Michael Bungay Stanier Let’s face it – we love giving advice. We love it when someone comes to us with a problem and asks us for our opinion. Heck, even if they don’t come with a problem, our uber-helpful mind is itching to convert the conversation into an unsolicited advice-giving session. Here’s how Michael Bungay Stanier, the author of The Coaching Habit, puts it: We’ve all got a deeply ingrained habit of slipping into the advice-giver/expert/answer-it/solve-it/fix-it mode. …
