Those who tell the stories rule the world

[shaownhasane]

A few weeks ago I joined Contently, a martech startup . My hotel is in Soho. I still suffer a bit from jet lag. Ten minutes walk and I’m across Broadway, near Houston. If you asked me, I’d move to New York tomorrow.

The office is just around the corner. It's a lovely old building, right in the middle of that little area squeezed between the eastern and western villages. So different from the shiny glass towers of the city centre.

I wait for the elevator and then go up to the fourth floor. I go in and introduce myself to some young people. I'm looking for familiar faces.

They tell me to go all the way down the hall. The marketing panama consumer mobile number list team is just around the corner. And then I see that phrase stamped on the wall.

Storytellers rule the world.

It’s a Native American proverb painted on Contently’s Broadway office. When Contently moved to Wall Street in 2018, the wall wasn’t reproduced in the new office.

I have been using that quote so many times as an introduction to my keynotes. For so many years.

I'm finally in front of that wall. I look around. I wait for the hallway to clear and then I do what I would never have done in any other situation.

I take some selfies.

I take selfies too
It's been three years since then, so many changes. We've been through a global pandemic; in fact, we're not completely out of it yet.

I left that company almost a year ago. Today I work for a new and exciting Martech startup . Same category.