Category: Leadership Storytelling
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Connection is Your Superpower in 2025
Got your supplies for 2025? Connection is your superpower. Connecting to people. Connecting people to people. People to ideas. We’ve got everything else. But before we can connect an audience to our message, they often need to connect with us first. I call this principle ‘messenger before message‘. Western audiences struggle to remember or even…
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Leadership Formation with Prime Minister Eduard Heger
Prime Minister Eduard Heger went from zero politics to PM in 6 years. He was “the least prepared” PM of Slovakia – and the only one to lead his country successfully through multiple crises:🔥 Covid🔥 Double-digit inflation🔥 Coalition crisis🔥 Energy crisis🔥 War This weekend I had the huge honour of teaching at a Leadership Formation…
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Creating “Mutual Value” at Oxford Saïd Business School
Storytelling for Purpose and Profit at Oxford Yesterday I had the honour of teaching another module for Mutual Value Labs at Oxford Saïd Business School. My session was titled “Storytelling for Purpose, Persuasion and Profit”. Mutual Value Labs helps organisations by Putting Purpose into Practice (the title of the book on the subject edited by…
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Why Doomsday Matters (AI Narratives)
Narratives around AI have gone mainly in one direction: Doomsday. Fear sells, even though AGI / ASI technology is impossibly far off. Why then do doomsday narratives still matter now? Watch the talk on the power of storytelling and narratives on AI scenarios here: We have to talk about how we talk about AI. Is…
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New leadership storytelling partnership
Leadership storytelling is increasingly important for today’s leaders. People are surprised to hear how I entered the field. From Fantasy Novelist to Leadership Storytelling Expert How did an “escapist” fantasy novelist like me transition into training leaders in storytelling? It was not a gentle or gradual development, but rather a surprising journey that transformed my…
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Lessons from the Head of Intelligence
Candid interview in NZZ with the Head of Swiss Intelligence, Christian Dussey. A brilliant man, Ambassador Dussey kindly hosted me as a Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and as the Centre’s first Novelist-in-Residence. Also, he’s a great storyteller from whom I learned a lot… Allow me to reminisce and reflect on the…
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Manage change with storytelling: Get inside their head
Why we should manage change with storytelling… Growing up, I’d occasionally take off my spectacles and put them next to me on the sofa, bed, or sometimes even the floor. Just for a moment. My father never tired of telling me NOT to do this. Much to my annoyance — after all, I wasn’t that…
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The artist’s approach to saving the world
Hi, Story: Fiction as a tool for lateral thinking GCSP Director Ambassador Christian Dussey believes in learning from history — the obvious intersection between International Relations and story. As Churchill put it, “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” So how about using fiction as a means of…
