“Everything you did brought you to where you are now.”
– Brandon Stark to Theon Greyjoy in the third episode of Season #8; Game Of Thrones
I offer two business lessons, but no spoilers, I promise.
One, great storytelling wins. If you’d have told me five years ago that I’d be completely hooked on a medieval fantasy series rife with gratuitous sex, graphic violence and fire-and-ice-breathing dragons I’d have called you crazy. But great storytelling wins out. The depth of the characters, the intricacies of the stories and their ties to events long before the story began — it all adds up to the audience being completely engaged, because the storytelling is that good. We ought to apply that to our businesses, certainly in our selling, but also in our recruiting and team development.
Two, as Dad often said, “No matter where you go, there you are.” We are here. Now. For a reason or reasons. Everything we did, saw, learned or missed brought us to where we are now. It’s what we do next that matters.”
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