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Category: Story-Tail
Wealth of wisdom
How to tell a story
Have you ever spoken to someone, where you shared something interesting and they still lost interest – or you did! Have you ever wondered why some people are better than others when it comes to communication, influence and building trust/faith? One of the major…
Why fairy tales don’t inspire anymore!
Who does not like a little story? A good plot, some identifiable characters, a little background, a convincing story-teller sprinkled with some emotions Little Red Ridinhood didn’t listen to her mother. Jasmine was in a live in relationship with Alladin. Snow White alone lived wid 7…
Story Time: How Buddha learnt a lesson?
Gautam buddha was sitting underneath a banayan tree, meditating.On the other side of the tree two local musicians met and were discussing their work. One of them wanted to learn the ‘ektara’, to increase his expertise. The other musician, to express his expertise, started…
The other side of business – The True Story of Ratan Tata
‘It is futile to mix business with emotions!’ A well established fact that fuels lay-offs, inhuman sell-off’s, stone hearted acquisitions and the ever diminishing regard for people in businesses driven by people. There is story that presents the other side of this picture. To…
Story Time – The Right is Wrong
A physics professor was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. Who was right? The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter (The Judge) , and a learned…
Story-time: No Try No Foul
This is a real incident. Houdini was a master magician as well as a fabulous locksmith. He boasted that he could escape from any jail cell in the world in less than an hour, provided he could go into the cell dressed in his…
How badly do you want to grow?
This is an old Greek fable about a scholar who went to Socrates. He travelled the length of the world and learned about all the wisdom available, his name was Cicero and he went to Socrates in an attempt to learn what no one…
Find your own story
Read this story slowly, preferably while you are alone. ‘A man was once walking alone down a road that looked never-ending. He was walking to forget about the pain his heart-break had caused. All that love looked relentlessly over-rated. He felt for his loss…
Story Time: The Fisherman & the Consultant
A management consultant, on holiday by the beach in Thiruvananthapuram, watched a little fishing boat dock at the shore. As usual he started calculating the ‘pro’s and con’s of the visible outcome’. Noting the quality of the fish, the consultant finally asked the fisherman…
When Elephants Fall ! Failures to learn from.
Who does not fail? Either one who is out-worldly talented or one who is insanely lucky. Surprisingly, most people who the world swears by today have had their share of failures. Each one of their autobiographies will tell you how miserable their life was…
Story Time: What determines the strength of a wheel?
An ancient Chinese story, retold by Phil Jackson, coach of the phenomenally successful Chicago Bulls basketball team, makes this point rather more emphatically. In the 3rd century BC, the Chinese emperor Liu Bang celebrated his consolidation of China with a banquet, where he sat…
Story Time: Why not should you judge?
A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call ASAP, changed his clothes & went directly to the surgery block. He found the boy’s father pacing in the hall waiting for the doctor. On…
Story Time: The Hare & The Tortoise – A new management approach
Part 1 Long time ago, there was a tortoise and a hare who had an argument about who the faster runner was. They finally decided to take on one another on a race. As the race started, the hare sprinted ahead briskly for some…
Story Time: The Sheep & The Consultant
A shepherd was tending his flock in a field, when a new sports car screeched to a stop on the road nearby in a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in expensive designer clothes and sunglasses, leans out of the window and…
Story Time: My dream or your dream ?
This is a true story. Some years ago the following exchange was broadcast on an Open University sociology TV programme. An interviewer was talking to a female production-line worker in a biscuit factory. The dialogue went like this: Interviewer: How long have you worked…
Story Time: Stress & A Glass of Water
This short and amusing illustration of how to manage stress really hits home for me. There’s nothing like a good story to help us get the point, so check out the Glass of Water theory of stress management here: A lecturer, when explaining stress…
Story Time: Logic of the chicken
This is allegedly a true story. Engineers at a major aerospace company were instructed to test the effects of bird-strikes (notably geese) on the windshields of airliners and military jets. To simulate the effect of a goose colliding with an aircraft travelling at high…
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