Harnessing complexity takes time and effort

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 13, 2006
Filed in Communication

Late last year I facilitated an open space event involving knowledge coordinators from a large government agency. These coordinators had never attended an open space …

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Google’s experimental decision market

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 13, 2006
Filed in Culture, Leadership Posts

Last September I reviewed James Surowiecki’s book Wisdom of Crowds. At the end of the review I said: I can understand why, as Surowiecki laments, …

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Narrative reveals values in action

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 11, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

During the course of 2005 we ran many narrative projects on a range of topics including project evaluation, occupational health and safety, trust, change management and …

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Employment Today has published our paper on narrative

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 11, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, News

Employment Today has published our paper called Telling Tales which is a version of Using Stories to Size up a Situation. This paper is primarily about …

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What would you recommend to an American on what to read to learn about Australia?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 11, 2006
Filed in Fun

I need your help because I’m a little stumped. Michael Wagner in a comment exchange here has asked for some ideas on how to learn …

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Collecting stories to build a World Trade Center memorial

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 10, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

BL Ochman has alerted me to this excellent initiative. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation is collecting stories about 9/11. I guess we all remember …

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This is a learning blog

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 9, 2006
Filed in Communication

Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users (one of my favourite blogs) has a learning blog: “A blog that shares what you know, to help …

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Michael Crichton and complexity science

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 8, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

Here is a set of videos of Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park and other techo-thrillers) presenting at The Smithsonian Associates and The Washington Center for Complexity …

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Describing your company values

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 8, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

In 2004 I helped a large bank conduct a narrative project to examine trust in a call centre. They had just finished working on their …

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Communities of practice – the right brain of the organisation?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 5, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Happy New Year to everyone from the team at Anecdote.  We hope you are returning fresh and fully charged to take on 2006… I have …

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