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Shawn recently blogged an interesting post on how to develop your narrative competence. The value of a developed sense of narrative competence is well recognised in the …

The military metaphor is dominant in many organisations. How many times have you heard colleagues talking about doing battle, gathering the troops, working in headquarters, …

Our narrative technique relies on the identification and extraction of anecdotes, typically from transcriptions. The ability to quickly identify an anecdote comes with practice so …

It seems to me that there is a growing dissatisfaction with the standard conference model of panel presenters and an audience full of possibility who …

In a matter of two weeks I’ve stumbled across the work of Larry Lessig. Last week I read about the Lessig presentation style at Presentation …

This is the last week before we run our narrative workshops in Sydney and Brisbane. If you want a really practical understanding of how to …

I would like ActKM to abandon the speaker-audience model in their conferences and adopt something radically different—discussions. Dave Winer sums the problem up beautifully: The …

One of the things I love about conferences is the people you meet and the stories you hear and share. Here’s an anecdote which I …

Andrew, Mark and I are currently at the ActKM conference in Canberra. So far it’s been the best ActKM conference in its six year history. …

I was in Brisbane on Thursday and had a great opportunity to catch up with some friends.  One of them, Vince Aisthorpe, related an anecdote …