Archive for 2008

Innovators are a bad choice for change

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 22, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes

I’m thoroughly enjoying reading Influencer at the moment and the story of Dr Everett Rogers grabbed my attention. After finishing his PhD his first job …

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Indexing books with stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

I’ve started a new practice of jotting down, inside the front cover of a book, the anecdotes it contains. It seems to work best for …

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A column in The Sydney Morning Herald on collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Today I have a short column in SMH on the theme of team and community collaboration for small to medium enterprises.

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Storytelling and leadership

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

It’s obvious to most people that good leaders are good storytellers. Stories help inspire action because they transport the listener to experience the events recounted …

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Anecdote receive award for best learning website in Asia Pacific

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 16, 2008
Filed in News

We were the very last award to be handed out at last week’s LearnX conference and Robyn and I walked up to the podium to …

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Internal blogging builds trust in leadership

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 15, 2008
Filed in Leadership Posts

In a blog post of 9 June over on The Melcrum Blog, Abi Signorelli describes how leaders in her organisation were blogging internally and how …

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Some books you might find useful

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 14, 2008
Filed in News

As you can probably guess I like to read and manage to get through quite a few books in the year. I noticed Amazon allows …

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Collaboration paper generating interest

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 13, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Our recent whitepaper ‘ Building a Collaborative Workplace‘ is generating some interest. An edited version was published in BRW last week and last night I …

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Intentional communities and designing for emergence

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 10, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

A couple of years ago we helped the Australian Army establish three communities of practice around these domains: doctrine, urban warfare and air manoeuvre. In …

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Your brain and presentations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 7, 2008
Filed in Communication

Garr Reynolds is the presentation guru and he’s developed a series of book reviews done in an engaging and informative way using, you guessed it, …

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