It has been said that “stories are the fabric of culture.” We all like to tell and hear stories. The rise in popularity of social networks such as Facebook highlights for me an observation that there is a deep longing in the world right now for new stories or at very least old stories told in new ways and with relevance for today and tomorrow.

In our work of inspiring and challenging organisations to be remarkable we note that the stories people tell when their organisation is less than remarkable are about the successes and failures of the past. We also notice that the moment transformation begins to happen stories about the present emerge.

A great check point to see if we are living on purpose both individually and organisationally is to ask ourselves are the stories we tell and listen to, old stories that relive the glories of the past or are they old yarns with new meaning, or better still completely new stories about the present?

Be remarkable

Ian