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The StoryBank

Indranil Chakraborty (IC)

Stories have impact. When we use them in our business conversations, they make our messages clear and memorable. We are all great storytellers, but we can"t be a one-story wonder. This podcast is designed to help you build your story collection.

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Episode 90 - Panenka and the action bias

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2024/05/19

Have situations like these ever happened to you?(A) You land up at a doctor's clinic with atypical symptoms that do not immediately threaten your health. The doctor hears you out but rather than adopting a wait and watch strategy, the doctor might ask you to go through a battery of diagnostic tests and none of them yield any results. A few months later, the symptoms vanish on their own.(B) Have you ever made a hasty buy or sell decision driven by unforeseen market movements only to later regret

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Episode 89 - SUBTRACT In a World of Addition Bias

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2024/05/12

Let’s say you are a marketing manager with a portfolio of 15 brands across three categories.Revenues are under pressure. You are thinking of what you should do.Say you have three choice(a) add a few more brands(b) kill a few brands(c) do nothing (yes, this is always a choice)What would you do?My guess is, that if we surveyed 100 brand managers, option (a) would have the highest percentage. Agree?But maybe killing a few brands and concentrating all the investment in the rest is the best course of

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Episode 88: The Diderot effect - Why we want things...

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2024/05/05

Has something like this ever happened to you?You bought something. Say a new car. And then you ended up purchasing all sorts of additional things to go inside it. A new car charger for your cell phone, an extra umbrella, a first aid kit, and even a flashlight.You owned your previous car for nearly 7 years and at no point did you feel that any of the previously mentioned items were worth purchasing. And yet, after getting your shiny new car, you found yourself falling into a consumption spiral.Has

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Episode 87 - Mitigated speech and an air crash

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2024/04/28

Imagine you are the first officer in the cockpit of a flight. The ATC has been highlighting some storm clouds in the flight path your plane is taking. It seems that the pilot hasn’t paid any attention to the warning and is flying straight towards the storm. You decide to say something.What do you choose to say:-A. “That dark cloud at twenty-five miles looks mean.”OrB. “Which direction would you like to deviate?”OrC. “Turn thirty degrees right.”Option C is direct and unambiguous, Option A is called

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Episode 86 - Own Backyard

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2024/04/21

Let’s imagine you are in an unfortunate situation where there is a medical emergency. Someone in the family needs help. You have never faced this situation earlier. You ask around and you are advised that the best solution lies in a land far far away. You have the resources to take the family member to that far away land. What would you do?In a recent lecture, Anand Mahindra narrates what he did and the lessons he learnt.For more #storiesatwork do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two

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Episode 85 - The London Underground Map

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2024/04/14

Many years ago, a tourist in London, let’s call him Peter, needed to travel from Covent Garden to Leicester Square. He opened the London Underground Map he carried in his pocket and saw that Leicester Square was one stop away.The map he was looking at was created in the early 1930s by an electrical engineer called Harry Beck. Harry Beck had taken an extremely complicated map and made it simple. One element of simplicity was that the stations were shown equidistance on the map.Peter went down the

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Episode 84 - Nelson Mandela - Story Triggering

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2024/04/07

It’s 1995. The stadium is full. It is a World Cup final. The oppressors are playing their fiercest competitor. In walks the man who is the most recognisable face among the oppressed. This man had come out of a 27-year prison sentence. As he walks in, the crowd is shocked….why?To know more listen to this absolute gem of a story on leadership.For more Stories at Work do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists - #StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB and #LeaderSpeak

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Episode E83 – “Don’t ever give up a good idea” – Stan...

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2024/03/31

Back in the early 1980s, I remember excitedly waiting for each episode of The Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman. I could sing every line from “Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can…….”. My favourite is “In the chill of night, at the scene of a crime, like a streak of light he arrives just in time”.Those joys of mine would never have happened if the creator of Spiderman, Stan Lee, gave up on his idea.Neither would I ever learn a line that continues to be one of my favourite mottos - “With

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Episode 81 - Think Small not Big

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2024/03/16

“Think small, not big”, seems to be advice contrary to what we are commonly told.But is there something missing in our usual drive to look for big levers of change? We all want to change the world. Perhaps thinking small can have a bigger impact than we expect.Today’s story is about that. Listen on…..To sign up for the Founding Fuel daily newsletter use this link https://foundingfuel.com/subscribe/newsletter?email=For more Stories at Work do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists

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Episode 80 - The Wisdom of Crowds

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2024/03/10

When in doubt and data is insufficient who should you ask? If you had two lifelines, is it better to “Ask the Audience” or “Phone a friend”.Today’s story may hold the answer.For more Stories at Work do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists - #StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB and #LeaderSpeak https://bit.ly/WLeaderSYou can also join our WhatsApp group to get a copy of this video. https://bit.ly/SW_WA_11Our website has a video version of this story.

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Episode 79 - Do you trust your team?

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2024/03/03

Imagine that you had hired a new person in your team. In a key project, she tried her best but failed and let the whole team down.A few days later, another important project comes up. What would you do? Give her the role she was hired to do, or do it yourself? After all, it is a very important project.This story from November last year from the US basketball league (NBA) is inspiring.For more Stories at Work do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists - #StoryBank

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Episode 78 – Bridge On the River Kwai

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2023/12/24

It is 2003, AM Naik the Chairman of L&T Infotech has traveled to the US to promote the business.One of the people he is supposed to meet is the CEO of AXA.The CEO walks in late for the meeting and declares that he has only 10 mins to spare.AM Naik surprises everyone with a story and the meeting lasts 90 mins.What was the story?Listen on.#businessstorytelling #storytellingFor more #storiesatwork do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists -#StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB

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Episode 77 – We’ve always done it this way! – The...

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2023/12/17

The Most Dangerous Phrase In Business is “We've Always Done It This Way”.Nothing kills innovation faster. Nothing strangles creativity more tightly.The stories about Kodak, Nokia, Blackberry and Blockbuster have been done to death.Here is a more human story that drives the same message home.For more #storiesatwork do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists -#StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB and#LeaderSpeak https://bit.ly/WLeaderSYou can also join our WhatsApp group to get a

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Episode 76 – Penalty Shootout – Does Practice Make...

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2023/12/10

It’s October, 2022, the Spanish Football team is practicing very diligently for the World Cup that will be played in December in Qatar.Their coach Luis Enrique has given them an audacious target. Practice a minimum of a 1000 penalties. The Spanish team actually did the unthinkable. Practice more than a 1000 penalties.7th Dec, 2022. World Cup Round of 16. Spain ranked 7th loses to Morocco ranked 22nd. The winner was decided with a penalty shoot out. The score? Morocco 3, Spain 0!How did that happen

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Episode 75 – How wolves changed the course of the...

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2023/12/03

If I told you that introducing wolves in an area can change the behaviour of rivers, would you believe me?It is true.This is the story of the several cascading effects that took place when wolves were reintroduced at the Yellowstone National Park, located in the western region of the United States.In business, we often think that with all our data and all our analysis, we can always predict all the cause and effect of any decision.If we do this, that will happen.This is not the case, especially when

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Episode 74 – The Oscar Fiasco Part 2

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2023/11/26

Last week we talked about the fiasco at the 89th Academy Awards.On 26th February 2017, when the award for Best Picture was to be given out by Warren Beatty and Fay Dunaway, a bizarre incident unfolded. The award was given to the wrong movie. Several human beings were blamed.I believe the fiasco could have been averted if two non-human errors had not happened.Last week we discussed the first error - Bad typography. If you haven’t heard that story, then head over here: https://bit.ly/OscarFiasco1Today

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Episode 73 - The Oscar Fiasco Part 1

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2023/11/19

This was Oscar week. This year everything went off well. Especially for India. And unlike last year no one got slapped 😂However, on 26th February 2017 at the 89th Academy Awards there was a fiasco. When the final, most prestigious awards - Best Picture was to be given out by Warren Beatty and Fay Dunaway, a bizarre incident unfolded. The award was given to the wrong movie. Several human beings were blamed.I believe the fiasco could have been averted if two non-human errors had not also

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Episode 72 - Thomas Edison - The salt in his soup

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2023/11/12

Are You Smart Enough to Pass Thomas Edison's Employment Test?He interviews you and then takes you to a diner with the team. The first course ordered is a soup. What you do next will determine whether you are hired or not?Will you pass.Listen on.For more #storiesatwork do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists -#StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB and#LeaderSpeak https://bit.ly/WLeaderSYou can also join our WhatsApp group to get a copy of this video. https://bit.ly/SW_WA_1LINK TO

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Episode 71 - STANLEY MILGRAM

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2023/11/07

In 1960, the major Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by Israeli agents and brought to Israel to stand trial.His defence was that he was merely following instructions when he ordered the deaths of millions of Jews.Imagine you are driving in the city, and two people wearing traffic police uniforms stop you. They ask for your license and car papers. After viewing them and consulting their hand-held device, they tell you that there is a statewide alert with your vehicle

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Episode 70 – Michael Phelps – Preparing for Adversity

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2023/10/29

Sometimes our understanding of a word or a phrase is completely turned on its head when someone shares a different meaning. This is one such instance.Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Heard it a million times, right?Listen to the story and see if your understanding of that phrase is the same as that of Micheal Phelps!For more Stories at Work do subscribe to our YouTube channel which has two playlists - #StoryBank https://bit.ly/WStoryB and #LeaderSpeak https://bit.ly/WLeaderSYou can also

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