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Management Today, the monthly journal of executive learning, information and knowledge, has gone digital. Each issue is US$5-60.

Because of our arrangement to supply the journal with business story articles each month, Halo and Noose members will receive a free monthly link to the latest Management Today - yet another membership benefit. This latest benefit alone pays back the lifetime membership investment in less than 3 months!

Halo and Noose contributes to ManagementToday Journal

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Watch out for Halo & the Noose Articles, on Storytelling in Business, in forthcoming issues of Management Today (The Journal of Executive Learning, Information & Knowledge).

Our first article published in Issue 3 June 2011 poses and then begins to answer the question: “Can traditional scenario planning take account of unexpected, catastrophic events?”

After considering the role and usefulness of scenario planning in business, the article looks at the recent entry of ‘black swan’ events and how we can mature the scenario process in order to formulate more nimble, robust strategies in an increasingly uncertain and tumultuous world – without becoming bogged down in overly-intellectual systems-thinking (whether ordered, chaotic, constrained, complex).

If this sort of business story appeals to you, don't delay but becom a member of the Halo and the Noose at http://www.haloandnoose.com/ to get access to a range of articles, diagnostic tools, newsletters, audio streams and more.

Motive for story telling in business?

I'm contemplating writing an article on WHY stories should be used in business. It seems that all too often the MOTIVE is as propaganda or in order to 'win' something by manipulating - for example to convince, persuade, gain sympathy, motivate towards a pre-determined goal, impress........ Maybe this is sometimes valid but not as the primary role of story? Too seldom, it seems, is story used to connect, share, convey information, knowledge, insight? What do you think?