Tell Good Stories, Be Curious says

grayspective aka John Gray. John participated in a past podcast with me recently and below is an excerpt from the podcast. The entire podcast and transcription is available at Startup Entrepreneur to Storyteller. Joe: Is there a good way of doing it to develop stories for businesses? John: I think ultimately is it starts at Read More …

Best Stories About Value Are About Users

In discussing Goods Dominant Logic (Gd-Logic) versus Service-Dominant Logic (SD-Logic), I probably oversimplify the message when I use the comparison that GD-Logic focuses on the thought of value derived at the point of transaction and SD-Logic focuses on the thought of value derived at the point of use. I went into this thinking in a Read More …

Sales Stories: Are You Creating the Wrong Heroes?

An outline of most sales stories that you will see goes something like this. First, you must grab their attention or the hook. Second, you tell them a relevant story that addresses their needs starting with the current state and the deficiencies or pain points, proceeding to describe the future state and how it will Read More …

Should we be using Job Stories?

I have not gone all in on Customer Journey Mapping and Customer/User/Buyer Personas because the vast majority are created without the Customer/User involvement. Though they may be the “best” we can do, I feel we often stereotype our customer/users into what we want them to be versus who they are. In lieu of this, I Read More …

Marketing Magic of Moses: Content, Stories and Targeting

Everyone will tell you it is about Content, Stories and Targeting (Relevance) your audience. Well, sure it is, we have been talking about that since before the days of Moses. Just look at what Moses offered: He was born a Hebrew, he was one of them. Evidence to lead: He was practically king of Egypt Read More …

Stories of Lean and Agile with the Agile Sensei

Claudio Perrone, aka Agile Sensei, is an independent Lean & Agile software development consultant, public speaker and dramatic storytelling journeyman.  Currently based in Dublin (Ireland), he offers vital transformational leadership and management experience to help individuals and organizations achieve phenomenal improvements. His current work on Lean Enterprise Architecture is set to enable tighter strategy alignment Read More …