The StoryBank

Indranil Chakraborty (IC)

Stories have impact. When we use them in our business conversations, they make our messages clear and memorable. We are all great storytellers, but we can't be a one-story wonder. This podcast is designed to help you build your story collection.

  1. Episode 145 – The Dunning-Kruger Effect – Unskilled, and unaware of it

    2D AGO

    Episode 145 – The Dunning-Kruger Effect – Unskilled, and unaware of it

    Send a text What if you're too incompetent to realise your incompetence? We explore this in today's story. We now live in a world where crafting a question takes much longer than getting an answer. You type a prompt and get a polished answer. If it all ended there then all would be good. But it doesn't. You often walk away feeling like you have learnt something, you are now more knowledgable. But have you really? Or are we borrowing someone else's fluency and calling it your own. I often ask myself, when using Al to generate an answer, whether I am falling into the Dunning-Kruger trap. In today's story | talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect - a cognitive bias where people who are very bad at something are often too bad at it to realise they are bad at it. To know that you're making mistakes, you need enough knowledge to recognise what a mistake looks like. The everyday version of this is that friend who took one economics class and now has strong opinions about monetary policy, while your friend with an actual holds a PhD in economics says "it's complicated" to everything. The issue isn't Al itself, it's how we engage with it. Learning to recognise the distance between feeling knowledgeable and actually being knowledgeable, maybe one of the most valuable skills we can develop, especially in this age of Al. For more #storiesatwork do have a look the  playlists of stories on our website - https://bit.ly/SW_Stories  Your friends and family can join our WhatsApp group to get copies of our videos. https://bit.ly/SW_WA_11 Our website has a video version of this story. https://storyworks.in/storybanks/ Follow me on LinkedIn -->linkedin.com/in/i-am-ic

    7 min
  2. Episode 140 - Blind Faith - The Dangers of Outsourcing Judgement

    FEB 17

    Episode 140 - Blind Faith - The Dangers of Outsourcing Judgement

    Send a text Have you ever blindly followed Google Maps... only to end up somewhere you definitely shouldn't be? I have. That tiny frustration reveals a much larger pattern in business: we increasingly hand over judgment to external “advisors” — data dashboards, predictive models, algorithms, and now AI systems. They’re often remarkably accurate. That’s exactly why they’re dangerous. When tools are consistently right, we gradually stop questioning assumptions, challenging blind spots, or cross-checking with reality. We trade active thinking for comfortable certainty. Then — when conditions shift and the tool fails — the fallout is massive. Not because the tool was broken, but because no one was paying attention anymore. Across eras and industries, the same trap repeats: leaders delegate too much critical thinking, mistaking reliable forecasts for infallible truth. The real leadership edge today? Staying mentally engaged.  Relentlessly asking: “Does this still hold up?” “What are we not seeing?” “What happens if the pattern breaks?” In today’s episode, I unpack three striking real-world examples that drive this point home. For more #storiesatwork do have a look the  playlists of stories on our website - https://bit.ly/SW_Stories  Your friends and family can join our WhatsApp group to get copies of our videos. https://bit.ly/SW_WA_11 Our website has a video version of this story. https://storyworks.in/storybanks/ Follow me on LinkedIn -->linkedin.com/in/i-am-ic

    6 min

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Stories have impact. When we use them in our business conversations, they make our messages clear and memorable. We are all great storytellers, but we can't be a one-story wonder. This podcast is designed to help you build your story collection.