Year | # | Title | # | Moral | Year | Created | Modified | Place | DocType | Ready? | Gender | Category | Questions | |
| 185 | Five ways to create budget | | You can stretch what you have | 2006 | 10/21/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Budget Mgmt | 1) Can you use these six methods in your organization? What other | |
| 53 | Creating an Internal Capital Budget | | Investment funds created out of operations are the easiest to get approved | 2002 | 02/27/2006 | 06/15/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Male | Budget Mgmt,Finance | 1) Do you have a capital budget? If so, what percent of your tota | |
| 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? | |
| 428 | Orbiting the Hairball | | Orbit, don't fly off or get sucked in | 2016 | 11/03/2016 | 01/18/2024 | Lisbon | Story | Yes | Male | Bureaucracy,Innovation | 1) How can you get distance in your organization?
2) What's your | |
| 472 | What do I need to do to get a job? | | Build your story a credential at a time | 2017 | 08/01/2017 | 06/15/2023 | UMSI | Story | Yes | Female | Careers | 1. Were the exercises useful or not? Why or why not? 2. What expe | |
| 626 | Rejections into Opportunities | | Reframe rejections as opportunities | 2024 | 06/04/2024 | 06/04/2024 | Advisor | Story | Yes | Male | Careers | | |
| 6 | Leave your Signature | | Style matters; leave your signature | 1979 | 02/27/2006 | 10/19/2023 | FBC | Story | Yes | Male | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | 1) What elements of style have you left imprinted on your work? O | |
| 81 | A Red-Button Party | | When you find a problem, celebrate: it's an opportunity to ratchet up the quality | 1985 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Male | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | 1) When a problem is discovered in your company or department, wh | |
| 44 | Giving the Third to the Architect | | You have to give one to the developers | 2000 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | St. Francis | Story | Yes | Male | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | 1) Which projects have you experienced that have problems with ti | |
| 95 | Perfection and Procrastination | | Only when the pain of avoiding a task exceeds the pain doing a task "perfectly," will the probability rise high enough for success. | 1995 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality | 1) What work do you put off? Why? 2) What's missing from the abov | |
| 101 | 1,008 Rejections | | Persistence pays | 1998 | 03/09/2006 | 06/04/2024 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,People Mgmt,Quality,Persistence | 1. How do you feel after a failure? What do you do about it? 2. D | |
| 288 | The Frog and the Train | | If you don't move, you get hit by the train | 2009 | 12/21/2009 | 11/21/2016 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Change Mgmt,Strategy | 1) What would you do: Call a train a train? Look before you leap? | |
| 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 | |
| 247 | The Bump Into Factor | | Put the new in the middle of the path | 2002 | 06/02/2008 | 10/27/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) What is the one thing you want everyone on your team to know? | |
| 388 | The Young Navigator | | Translate into your audiences' frames of reference | 1962 | 09/23/2016 | 10/27/2023 | West Babylon | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) has this new situation happened before? 2) Is this like someth | |
| 227 | Hearing the call | | Get your name out among people, then listen for the echo | 2007 | 11/18/2007 | 08/14/2017 | STC | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1) What are some of the "boats" that have come your way? Did you | |
| 34 | Ping Pong Thinking | | Iterative thinking builds an idea | 1995 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | HPMD | Story | Yes | Male | Communication | 1) When have you had a discussion that rapidly builds ideas? Is i | |
| 327 | Acronyms | | Speaking in code is for insiders only | 2014 | 08/13/2014 | 08/14/2017 | IFRC | Story | Yes | Female | Communication | 1. How much longer would a report be with all acronyms spelled ou | |
| 41 | The Chairman Gets IT | | Talk about technology in nontechnical terms | 2000 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | STC | Story | Yes | Male | Communication | 1) One of the ways to describe technology is by using metaphors. | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 7 | Technology Without the Technology | | Speak technology in nontechnical terms | 1981 | 02/27/2006 | 02/13/2023 | IDC | Story | Yes | Male | Communication,Metaphor | 1) Can you recall a time when you were asked to play a role of tr | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | | |
| 370 | Take me to the river | | Going to the river ain't for sight-seeing; it's for seeing the truth | 2005 | 07/26/2016 | 11/08/2021 | STC | Story | Yes | Male | Conflict | 1. Where are the places where you were told bad news about your p | |
| 297 | Michelangelo | | With a vision, you're always not done yet | 2010 | 07/04/2011 | 02/08/2024 | NetHope | Story | Yes | Male | Creativity,Vision | 1) What did retirement look like for your parents? What do you im | |
| 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 | |