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Hire a diverse bunch of smart people and let them talk
Peering over the fence between disciplines has been a time honoured method for sparking revolutionary ideas. Remember Charles Darwin fruitful dalliance with economics which helped …
Read MoreThe Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School
Design Observer has republished an article by Michael McDonough listing the top 10 things they never taught Michael in design school. Design is a fundamental capability …
Read MoreThe role of story in branding
My friend Darren Woolley sent me this link to Storytelling: Escaping the Price War. The subtitle is: How Perrier and Other Marketers Have Elevated Product …
Read MoreNarrative quote from Steve Denning
I like this quote from Steve: “The choice for leaders in business and organizations is not whether to be involved in storytelling—they can hardly do …
Read MoreThe importance of dialogue
Shawn’s series of posts on finding expertise has reminded me of one of my favourite quotes: an anthropologist’s description of an agricultural North American tribe …
Read MoreFinding the right expertise using your networks
Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap tell the story of how Jack Hanley, the CEO of Monsanto, hired Howard Schneiderman, the Dean of Biological Sciences at …
Read MoreAustralian-wide survey on awareness and attitudes of story and narrative techniques in organisations
Since our survey launch last week I have sure been busy. We’ve had a fantastic response rate and are collecting some interesting perspectives which we …
Read MoreTechnorati sucks you in to do a survey
I noticed this call to bloggers on Technorati today and because I’m interested in how people conduct online surveys (we’re running one at the moment …
Read MoreChallenging two assumptions in expertise location
There are two common assumptions made in expertise location approaches which we should not be taken for granted: expertise resides with an individual; and once you’ve …
Read MoreAnthropologist collects stories from soldiers in Afganistan
I just noticed this news item over at Harold Jarche’s blog describing how anthropologist Anne Irwin spent time collecting stories in the field with the Canadian …
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