Peter Botting

Board/C-Suite Narrative and Risk Advisor. Before it’s visible, before it’s expensive. TEDMED • SXSW • StartX

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

Are you a business leader? Whether you lead a team or a business, of any size, you have an additional title on top of the one in your LinkedIn.

You are the Chief Storytelling Officer.

You have three audiences. Upwards, outwards, and downwards.

Downwards is your existing team, and those you are trying to recruit. If you want a team of A players, believers rather than pay cheque people - you need to be a great storyteller.

Outwards could be podcasts, analysts, the media, large stages such as conferences and TED style stages. How good your story is, and how well you tell it, has a massive impact on perceptions of your and your business.

Upwards is whoever you answer to, the Board or investors/shareholders. This affects how they see you and will impact on your career.

All three of these audiences respond to your storytelling ability - whether it is good or bad.

Being a great storyteller could extend your tenure at the top by years. Being bad at storytelling WILL shorten it.

The good news is that your storytelling ability is a variable, one of the very few, that you CAN influence and improve.

Clients of mine have improved A player recruitment and retention and reduced unwanted churn. They have turned employees into believers. They have improved margins. They have improved the perceptions of their business and themselves.

Whatever your leadership title, you are the Chief Storytelling Officer of your career and your business or department.

I can help you become a better storyteller.

Is it a crazy idea to set up a chemistry test and do an audit of where you are now?

#leadershipcoach
#storytellingcoach
#speakercoach
#executiveinterviewcoach

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

What if Starmer says **** it, calls a General Election, and then resigns? 👀👀👀
#Starmer

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

My guess is that we are days, even hours, away from a resignation announcement. For those still trying to run the "good man, bad politician" line, have a look at this.

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

This is so pathetic. Berlin gets it. Austin gets it. Other cities in the UK get it. But various authorities in London don’t. https://t.co/Jvt84g1xa9

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

What is a frivolous party? Is the adjective required anymore? Is it a UK only thing?

Makerfield: the likely next UK Prime Minister’s election result was declared today with him standing between someone wearing a fox costume and the UK-famous Count Binface - who is an iconic perennial candidate who contests prominent “non-frivolous” politicians. His manifestos are hilarious - you should find them on the internet.

But this is not limited to the UK.

In Australia there was the Party, Party, Party; in Switzerland there is the APP (the Anti-PowerPoint Party - I’d vote for them!!); Denmark once had The Vodka Party (again worth considering); Canada has the None of the Above Party (also worth considering); Norway had the Beer Unity Party; Poland had the Beer Lovers Party; Taiwan had the Can’t Stop This Party.

In 1979, the UK had the Fancy Dress Party. The UK has also had the Teddy Bear Alliance, Church of the Militant Elvis Party, Nude and Proud (in the Welsh Senedd), and, of course, the Monster Raving Looney Party.

#Makerfield
#Burnham
#Labour
#frivolousparty

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

@jakelchambers @StockyMan115 @ConsrvTogethr Thank you!

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

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[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

I'm hiring a senior comms adviser.

The Conservatives are on the side of Britain's risk takers and wealth creators, and I want you to help spread the word.

Details in replies.

[Peter Botting @peterbotting]

Soho killjoys are the worst kind of Londoners https://t.co/TSiX3Rvmga

[NūrAI @mynur_ai]

@ConsrvTogethr @peterbotting Coaching someone for the UN General Assembly is the ultimate high stakes communication brief.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk reveals the brutal math behind why a single hour of his time is worth $100 million

"Tesla this year will do over $100 billion in revenue, so that's $2 billion a week. If I make slightly better decisions I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars. The marginal value of a better decision can easily be in the course of an hour $100 million"

"You have to look at it on a percentage basis. If you look at it in absolute terms, I would never get any sleep. I'd just keep working and work my brain hotter, trying to get as much as possible out of this meat computer"

[Josh Gafson @JoshGafson1]

As Black Rod knocked on the door, someone in the Commons shouted 'not now, Andy'

[ABC News @ABC]

Police in France are warning drivers in rural areas to be on the lookout for "drunk" deer exhibiting erratic behavior caused by the consumption of fermented fruits — or as police called it, a “forest aperitif.” https://t.co/uGT1Vy45cD

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A fifth wheel was used to help parallel park in 1933.

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC

[TBPN @tbpn]

When @travisk was fundraising Uber's round that valued it at $70B, he ran four rooms simultaneously out of their New York office for an entire week, each booked in 90-minute slots across 12-hour days:

"This is how we'd fundraise: we had four rooms in our New York office booked for a week with an hour-and-a-half slot on each. So for 12 hours in a day, four rooms going in parallel."

"I'm in the $250M-and-over club, that's one room. Then there are these other rooms, down to the fourth room, which is like $25M checks. There's a guy who works for a guy, who works for a guy, who works for me who's doing that room."

"But we're oversubscribed. So we started putting multiple investors in the same room. We were like, 'We're just out of slots dude. Let's go.'"

"The storytelling we did, anybody on my team could tell that story and make it happen. And that was a big part. It was the story... then there is making it scalable so that there are 10 different people in a company that can pitch it at any given time. And that’s when you take it all the way."

[Caroline Spence @cspenceproducer]

I'm not normally in the limelight, so I'll take this, lol!☺️

[ICC @ICC]

Zimbabwe leapfrog Sri Lanka into top spot of Group B with a thrilling win 👏📈

#T20WorldCup broadcast details 👉 https://t.co/NPykWM7qqY

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (@edludlow / Bloomberg)

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