Second City - Rob Biesenbach

Three Simple Ingredients for Successful Stories

February 5, 2013 by beckysue

Stories can do amazing things for you. Telling the right story can help you nail a job interview, win over a customer, rally a team, motivate employees and many other things. But what exactly is a story? A colleague of mine went searching for a definition of story for a book he was writing. He … Read more

The Hokey Pokey as a Blueprint for Life

March 29, 2012 by beckysue

It didn’t matter who you were — Martin de Maat believed in you. Martin was a teacher and administrator at Second City. He died in 2001, about a year before I started taking classes there, but he left behind an indelible legacy. By all accounts, he was a one-of-a-kind figure — passionate, enthusiastic, inspirational. Martin put … Read more