Robert McKee has taught Story-in-Business all over the world. This quick clip from Brazil hints at some of the content of his one-day seminar.
Six Classic Errors in Business Story
- Telling your story from the company’s view.
- Talking to the customer in the third person.
- Avoiding reality as way too “heavy”.
- Creating a gratuitious feel-good factor.
- Avoiding exact detail in the search for universality.
- Calling rhetorical exercises “stories” when they are only directed at the mental processes.
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