Year | # | Title | # | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | Ready? | Gender | Category | Questions | |
| 999 | Mean Time to Story Failure | | Your top stories are the memorable ones | 2004 | 12/26/2007 | 11/22/2016 | STC | Story | Yes | Reader | Conclusion,Humor | | |
| 609 | The Triage Exercise | | Work demand can be triaged to focus on the most urgent first | 2020 | 01/10/2024 | 01/25/2024 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Female | Crisis Mgmt,Time Mgmt | 1) How do you say the "no" or the "wait" without creating Shadow | |
| 588 | We Are Better Together | | Listening to the conversation brings the solution. | 2016 | 06/28/2023 | 11/20/2023 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Female | Collaboration,Stories | 1) What stories do you tell about yourself? 2) What stories do yo | |
| 586 | The Strawman | | Reacting is a stronger form of creating | 2000 | 06/13/2023 | 10/27/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Communication,Vision,Project Mgmt | 1. What are the risks in creating an early vision of where you wa | |
| 585 | Grenade Pins | | Give permission to call out and stop idea-killing comments | 2023 | 05/03/2023 | 06/13/2023 | St. Clare's | Story | Yes | Male | Communication,Leadership | 1) Have you ever been in a meeting where no one wants to speak up | |
| 578 | Downsizing | | A downsizing is more than a budget and staff cut | 2015 | 11/10/2022 | 01/18/2024 | IFRC | Story | Yes | Male | Budget Mgmt,Finance,Downsizing | 1. Have you or someone you know been through a downsizing before? | |
| 572 | The Cost of Training | | Training is a key part of your budget | 2022 | 10/11/2022 | 11/28/2023 | Advisor | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt,Training | 1) What percent of revenue does your organization budget for trai | |
| 570 | AT&T Mobile | | Optimize the time when you jump on a disruptive technology | 2019 | 09/15/2022 | 11/20/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Male | Innovation | 1) Review the Gartner Hype Cycle and discuss when the optimal tim | |
| 567 | Dat? | | Ask dat? And be open for a surprise | 1995 | 06/04/2022 | 11/20/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Male | Curiosity,Innovation | 1. How many experiments are you running this month? 2. When someo | |
| 562 | Criticize in Private | | To build team trust, praise in public; criticize in private | 1988 | 09/16/2022 | 01/08/2023 | DBC | Story | Yes | Male | People Mgmt | 1. Have you seen or experienced public criticism? How do the indi | |
| 556 | The Passport | | Approach your hosts with beginner's mind | 2021 | 09/16/2022 | 04/19/2023 | EMU | Story | Yes | Female | Culture | 1. Have you ever been annoyed that a vendor from another country | |
| 544 | The Light Bulb | | Reframe the problem into an opportunity | 2006 | 09/16/2022 | 11/20/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Male | Innovation,Failure | 1. Are you failure resistant? Is your organization? 2. If a failu | |
| 542 | Acts of Kindness | | Brainstorm kind surprises | 2021 | 09/16/2022 | 01/03/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Male | Values,Service | 1. What random acts of kindness have you experienced in the workp | |
| 536 | The Grenade | | Don't take the hand grenade problem; give it back | 1985 | 09/08/2022 | 06/15/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Female | Leadership,People Mgmt | | |
| 529 | Cyclone Nargis | | Supply chain is about getting the goods to point of need | 2008 | 09/16/2022 | 01/25/2024 | Dartmouth | Story | Yes | Female | Crisis Mgmt | 1. Consider the logistics art of your disaster response plan? Do | |
| 528 | "Between" People | | Being a chief translator is a valuable skill for most business | 2019 | 09/16/2022 | 01/06/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Female | Communication,Project Mgmt,Careers | 1. How do you like to spend your time, all coding and analysis, a | |
| 515 | Looking right, looking left | | For making plans, context and options matter | 2018 | 09/17/2022 | 01/25/2024 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Male | Planning,Crisis Mgmt | 1. How will your systems or processes fail gracefully? 2. How wou | |
| 514 | Selling Relief Goods | | Trust that people know how to manage their lives | 2014 | 09/16/2022 | 01/03/2023 | IFRC | Story | Yes | Female | Leadership,Culture | 1. What are the ways that organizations don't trust their own peo | |
| 511 | Boil It down | | "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 2018 | 09/15/2022 | 01/08/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1. Look at your last presentation. Can you boil it down to a sing | |
| 510 | Soft Skills | | The business is first a relationship | 1995 | 09/15/2022 | 01/03/2023 | Sara Lee | Story | Yes | Male | Communication,Service | 1. As a client, what have been your interactions with trade profe | |
| 506 | The Lantern Festival | | Sometimes the great event produces nothing sustainable | 2016 | 09/17/2022 | 11/20/2023 | Taiwan | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt,Innovation,Design | 1. Have you ever attended a hackathon? What was it like, pros and | |
| 505 | If it's not in the new system, it doesn't exist | | Lead by becoming a primary user | 2009 | 09/08/2022 | 03/22/2024 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Project Mgmt | 1. What roles have you seen senior managers play with a new IT pr | |
| 504 | Selling the Plumbing | | A CIO must be chief translator and facile with a metaphor | 2018 | 03/24/2018 | 01/03/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Male | Communication,Metaphor | 1. What examples have you heard used in technical presentations t | |
| 500 | Needle in the Haystack | | Be able to state what's most important among the many is liberating and empowering | 2010 | 02/01/2018 | 01/03/2023 | IFRC | Story | Yes | Male | Goals,Measurement | 1. How many objectives does your organization set each year? How | |
| 498 | The Simex | | An immersion experience can teach the teachers | 2017 | 12/16/2017 | 07/28/2020 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Male | Leadership,Training,Strategy,Crisis | 1. have you run a SimEx in your organization? 2. Do you have a di | |
| 493 | All That Jazz | | Invite shaking up the status quo | 2008 | 11/11/2017 | 12/20/2021 | Fairfield | Story | Yes | Male | Metaphor,Leadership,Bureaucracy,Improv | 1) In a brainstorming session, what happens when an idea is sugge | |
| 490 | Texting in the Bush | | Know the technology touch-points | 2010 | 10/07/2017 | 02/03/2018 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Female | Strategy,Project Mgmt,Culture | 1. What technologies are your project audiences most comfortable | |
| 488 | Pasta or Pastry? | | Is it a pastry or a pasta problem? | 2011 | 10/07/2017 | 10/07/2018 | Bellagio | Story | Yes | Male | Project Mgmt,Strategy | 1. Which projects have you experienced where information was lack | |
| 480 | Loma Prieta | | When the ground moves, hang on | 1989 | 10/07/2017 | 10/07/2019 | DBC | Story | Yes | Female | Crisis | 1. What larger crises or disasters have you or your colleagues ex | |
| 475 | Where were you? | | Event markers divide our lives and organizations into chapters | 2017 | 08/08/2017 | 09/27/2022 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Female | Crisis | Start with the questions in the letter: 1) When you think about y | |