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Just getting by…

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 8, 2007
Filed in Fun

I rushed out of the house at ‘oh-dark-hundred’ on Monday morning for a three and a half hour drive to run a workshop for the …

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Blogging has a role in culture change

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 15, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Arjun Thomas has blogged a summary of a recent McKinsey Global Survey on ‘How Businesses are using Web 2.0″. The survey continues a theme that …

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Open space video

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 4, 2007
Filed in Employee Engagement

This YouTube clip provides a good concise overview of how open space meetings work. Source: Open Space List

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Learning before…

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 30, 2007
Filed in Communication

Our friend and colleague Amanda Horne sent us an e-newsletter with an essay about a brilliant networker called Catherine Fitzgerald. The essay describes some of …

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The little things that give you insight into the culture

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 16, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

The anecdote below, told by a participant in a recent workshop, really made me stop and think. There are lots of lessons it, not least …

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Communicating is tough

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 28, 2007
Filed in Communication

We all know how tough it can be to get our message across at times. I vividly remember an occasion several years where I had …

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More on sensemaking

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 18, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

We recently blogged about the benefits of making sense of stories. Last week we needed to explain to a client why participation in the sensemaking …

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Focussing your knowledge strategy

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 9, 2007
Filed in Strategy

We have noticed that knowledge strategies tend to have a recurring set of objectives. We listed an initial set of core objectives here and have …

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Anecdote circles don’t work for everyone

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 6, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

Occasionally, anecdote circles don’t work. Sometimes, people don’t get a lot out of them. In the feedback session for the leadership program mentioned on Wednesday …

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Anecdote: making positive choices

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 4, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

I am in a plane to Brisbane reflecting on the second delivery of a 2.5 day leadership program we have helped develop for the Australian …

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