Archive for 2006

Intervention design – an example

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 16, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I’m always on the lookout for intervention design examples and I found one last week I think you’ll like. But before I describe it, remember …

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Free management book reviews

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 15, 2006
Filed in News

Bill Godfrey has made all his book reviews available online for free and is hoping to attract other book review writers to develop a truly …

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Open letter to CXO’s

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 14, 2006
Filed in Culture

Pam Slim writes a refreshing and forthright post slamming common management practice. I particularly like her take on culture: Corporate culture is a natural thing that …

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Hexies Post-it Notes are Better

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

One of the narrative techniques we use involves identifying the characters, topics and behaviours from a collection of transcribed anecdotes. This process usually involves groups writing …

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The meme of control

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

Thinking over how pervasive (and problematic?) the notion of control appears to be in organisations I was inspired to write a little piece around it. Here’s …

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Open Space Training in Melbourne

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Events

Viv McWaters and Brian Bainbridge are running their marvelous Open Space training next week 16th – 18th here in Melbourne. As Viv says: You’ve heard …

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SNA Sensemaking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Social Network Analysis has spent alot of its evolution and development down in the weeds where the expert has been king. Crunching and analysing. Not …

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Bridges and Hubs in Social Networks

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Communication

When it comes to Social Network Analysis (SNA) a common practice is to use centrality measures such as Betweenness (Bridgeness), Closeness and Degree. For instance, …

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Opening our Anecdote Shop

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

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping”. As a patient husband who has trekked around my share of shops …

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Newspaper generator

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 10, 2006
Filed in Fun

Looks like we had one of our articles published in The Daily Anecdote. This newspaper clipping generator is a bit of fun. [via Steve Rubel] …

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