With all the stories you'll learn here in Anecdotally Speaking you will need a place, and an approach, to keep track of them so you can find good ones when you need them. So in this episode Mark and I run through some tips to create your own story-bank and give you some important advice on what to do and what to avoid.

Our feature story is about how a CEO helped his company focus on one big thing and in the process helped everyone get an enormous amount of good work done. This example is particularly important as a tonic against complex strategies where no one has a chance of understanding what needs to be done let alone remembering it.

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Our story was sourced from Duhigg, C. (2012). The power of habit: why we do what we do and how to change. London: William Heinmann.