Archive for July, 2006

Hire a diverse bunch of smart people and let them talk

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 14, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

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 …

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The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 13, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

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 …

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The role of story in branding

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 12, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

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 …

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Narrative quote from Steve Denning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 12, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Leadership Posts

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 …

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The importance of dialogue

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 10, 2006
Filed in Communication

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 …

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Finding the right expertise using your networks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 10, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

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 …

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Australian-wide survey on awareness and attitudes of story and narrative techniques in organisations

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —July 10, 2006
Filed in News

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 …

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Technorati sucks you in to do a survey

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 8, 2006
Filed in News

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 …

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Challenging two assumptions in expertise location

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 7, 2006
Filed in Communication

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 …

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Anthropologist collects stories from soldiers in Afganistan

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 6, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

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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