Stories Mean Business - Nick Warren

Every sale in your business happens for one reason ... it resolves a customer conflict. What's yours? Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/855:-What-Powers-Your-Story

I expect to become the premier search result for this search term in no time ... but that's not what I'm talking about today. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/854:-Mickey-Mouse-and-Colonoscopies

Yesterday, I quoted Harvey S. Firestone without really knowing who he was ... today the quote has way more resonance, because I've linked him in to things I already know. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/853:-Linking-In-Firestone

Bob Iger's Masterclass is excellent ... even if most of us aren't ever going to manage a multinational brand like Disney. (Iger was CEO from 2005 to 2020, reinvigorating Disney animation with the Pixar acquisition, then adding Marvel , Star Wars and 20th Century Fox. Not to mention quintipling the value of the company from around $50 billion to $250 billion.) But we can still learn from smart peop...

In Groundhog Day (1993), Bill Murray plays a hapless weather man reliving the same day over and over again until he gets it right. In Deathloop (2021), Colt Vaugn is also reliving the same day ... until he can kill seven evil geniuses and 'break the loop'. (To clarify, this is a video game I'm playing.) In both cases, living the same 24 hours again and again gives the characters the chance to lear...

The Subscribe process from Sprint 1 is now on the website at www.storiesmeanbusiness.com . For Sprint 2 I will be breaking the landing page ( www.storiesmeanbusiness.com/yourstory ) up into three or four separate pages. This is the process of adding "good friction" which I talked about in Episode 594. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/850:-Sprint-2

At the end of January, I'll be paying my taxes ... and it turns out to be more important than I thought. This podcast is inspired by a section of Thomas Piketty's magnum opus, Capital In The 21st Century. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/848:-A-Short-Dip-Into-Economics

I love Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. It's the kind of book that makes us better humans, not to mention the ton of eye-opening insights. But most relevant to our work is Harari's views on storytelling. Let's get into it... Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/848:-Stories-from-Sapiens

In his 33rd letter, Seneca exhorted his correspondent, Lucilius Junior, to stop relying on the wisdom of others and stake his own claim. The irony is thick in this episode. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/847-Stake-Your-Claim

Finishing our 10,000 tour of Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/846-Kanban-and-Lean

Let's get some of the main landmarks in place.

Can you break down your story and deliver something?

Next steps.

Focus and values for 2022.

Looking back so that we can look forward.

How do we create better experiences, products and services?

Sometimes, it helps to understand that you are a speck.

Define your enemy and call them out.

Character matters.

This is what I've been thinking about.

Wherever you are and whatever you believe, I wish you a lovely day.

Here's something that's pretty strange when you really sit down and think about it.  For most of our most popular stories, movies, TV Shows, novels ... we kind of know the ending before we start. It takes Harry Potter seven books to defeat Lord Voldemort, but our brains con confidently predict it from the start of book 1. Yet still we read, enraptured. Why is that? It's because – in stories –...

Just before we hit the annual festival of excess stuff, let's remember the value on keeping it simple. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/833:-Keeping-It-Simple

We're perfectly happy to make our kids unhappy in the short-term if it protects their long-term happiness. Shouldn't we do the same for ourselves? Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/832:-Parenting-Ourselves

The 3rd Tom Holland outing utilises cliffhangers, callbacks and the most powerful storytelling technique of all ... humanity. Episode home: https://StoriesMeanBusiness.com/podcast/831:-Spider-Man-No-Way-Home