http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_041.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSShttp://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_041.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSIf you’re a parent of a teenager, you know this unfortunate truth: You love your child. But sometimes you don’t like them very much. And you know all too well that they don’t always like you…
Month: November 2015
Fixing story structure
Instructions: Read this short story. Then re-order it to be in the proper Hook-Context-Challenge-Conflict-Resolution-Lesson/Action sequence. The story takes place in a leadership team discussion about how to get employees to follow the clean desk policy better. Specifically, they were talking about how to get everyone to not leave their documents on the printers overnight. I…
Monkeying around with corporate policy
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_042.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSShttp://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_042.mp3Podcast (lead-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSIMAGINE CONDUCTING this experiment. Put five monkeys in a cage with a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling. Underneath the bananas, place a ladder just tall enough to reach them. Then any time one of…
How NOT to treat your mother-in-law this Thanksgiving
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_040.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSTo understand humility, it’s often easiest to start with its opposite: pride. In his book The Seven Deadly Sins, Reverend James Stalker defines pride as “the inordinate assertion of self.” In other words, pride is an inflated sense of our own importance or status or…
Eating the quiche: how to stand up to peer pressure
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_039.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSI think the most memorable lesson I ever learned about becoming an adult occurred at the most unexpected place and time: in a crowded restaurant on Secretary’s Day, April 1986. Still a teenager and a freshman in college, I had a part-time job at a…
The Bamboo Years: Courage to invest in hard times
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/LWAS_041.mp3Podcast (lead-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSOur natural inclination in hard economic times is to curtail all spending. Unfortunately, that short-term view sometimes means we forgo investments in people and technology that we’ll wish we had made when the good times return. It’s times like that a good “permission story” comes…
The day masked gunmen burst into my high school history class
http://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_038.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSShttp://traffic.libsyn.com/leadwithastory/PWAS_038.mp3Podcast (parenting-with-a-story-podcast-series): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSSThe most unforgettable lesson I ever learned in school was when four masked gunmen burst into my high school history class. It was the first day of classes my junior year in a small-town high school…