David - As an admirer of your work from the earliest of days, I so appreciate this post. Especially the distillation of your superpowers into a simple illustrative visual. This is exactly why Rob McLoughlin and I launched www.thenarrativeplaybook.com. Our respective careers, like yours, were in service of clients and their brand - be it partnering with our media assets, be it telling their story via data insights, be it getting their corporate narrative/branding aligned. A magical phone call from an individual (just prior to COVID) asking for help to solve their personal narrative, became the trigger that made us come together and build The Narrative Playbook (TNP). With COVID, we realized everyone will be impacted by this tsunami on so many levels. So we built TNP into a company that is focused on helping people solve for their fit (be it with themselves, their team and or within their organization). And, to your shoe cobbler points, Rob and I had to look in the mirror and create for ourselves what we have now helped 22 individuals to achieve - designing for our own personal narrative. Which is really, really hard to do objectively.
David - As an admirer of your work from the earliest of days, I so appreciate this post. Especially the distillation of your superpowers into a simple illustrative visual. This is exactly why Rob McLoughlin and I launched www.thenarrativeplaybook.com. Our respective careers, like yours, were in service of clients and their brand - be it partnering with our media assets, be it telling their story via data insights, be it getting their corporate narrative/branding aligned. A magical phone call from an individual (just prior to COVID) asking for help to solve their personal narrative, became the trigger that made us come together and build The Narrative Playbook (TNP). With COVID, we realized everyone will be impacted by this tsunami on so many levels. So we built TNP into a company that is focused on helping people solve for their fit (be it with themselves, their team and or within their organization). And, to your shoe cobbler points, Rob and I had to look in the mirror and create for ourselves what we have now helped 22 individuals to achieve - designing for our own personal narrative. Which is really, really hard to do objectively.
"You can't read the label of the jar you're in." I've quoted it a million times and it's just as true today as it ever was!