Sapiens and the story spectrum

I’ve just finished reading Sapiens – a brief history of humankind by historian Yuval Noah Hirari and I wanted to share some of the valuable leadership lessons I believe it contains. Sapiens is a very ambitious undertaking ‒ how do you begin to summarise the first two...

Show and Tell

I sat in my first creative writing class in a chilly pub basement in Durham in 1993. I expected to listen to the teacher for the first few weeks. Maybe I would be asked to critique the work of a published writer, but surely I wouldn’t be expected to write. I was...

Story: a reliable mode of transport

I recently met up with an old friend that I hadn’t seem for a couple of years. We spent five years working for the same organisation and for a good chunk of that time we saw each other on an almost daily basis. Despite the fact that I christened him with one of those...

Story: a reliable mode of transport

I recently met up with an old friend that I hadn’t seem for a couple of years. We spent five years working for the same organisation and for a good chunk of that time we saw each other on an almost daily basis. Despite the fact that I christened him with one of those...