If you have a significant message to put across, in a significant way to a significant audience, I encourage you to tell stories—more of them, to more people and to tell them better.
Have you heard the story of the two shoe salesmen? One set new company records month after month, won awards, trips, and bonuses. He was happy and enthusiastic. The other hardly made a living. Same product. Same prices. Same offers. What was the difference? The...
You are ten times BIGGER than you think This story illustrates ways in which you are ten times better than you think. You are a whole lot bigger. In many cases, up to ten times bigger. If you are anything like the man in this story, you might be 500 times bigger. I...
Big dreams are exciting.The idea of dreaming big dreams hit its high-water mark in the 70s and 80s. They were times that proved little, ordinary, low-born people and ideas could be wildly successful. We saw the emergence of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the Macintosh,...
'And the award for Best Listener goes to Christine Pearce!’ The whole church clapped and cheered. It was a quasi-awards night at the end of the year and people were being awarded for outstanding contributions to the members. Half the cheering was because people knew...
I’m grateful. Lots of you have written in to say you appreciated the idea about asking your team or family about how you can be a better person. It's certainly a clue about how to finish well. However one unhappy camper wrote: Thanks a lot Mr Colin Pearce, Last week...
The fishermen. Two poor and hungry fishermen were arguing about who should eat an oyster but could not come to terms. They clearly needed advice but there was none at hand. ‘I saw it first’, said one. ‘But I picked it up’, said the other. ‘Yes, but that’s because I...
There’s always hope. I am sitting in a hospital lounge. I’m waiting to collect a friend I’ve brought in for a brief procedure for which he needs an anaesthetic and consequently needs someone to take him home. He's aging. So am I. Right there in front of me there's a...
ANZAC Day eve is a sobering time. It’s the eve of ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand – 25th of April – for most people a day more solemn than Easter, or even the anniversary of the death of a family member. It’s a weird thing. 100 years ago the ANZACs (an...
Isn’t the Easter Long Week End Just Perfect? Easter is brilliant, especially when it falls in April. As a kid you went on a church camp or a Scout or a Guides camp or a family camping trip or to the same holiday house the family went to every year since Federation....