Archive for March, 2005

Disappointing implementations and rebuilding trust

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 17, 2005
Filed in Anecdotes

Yesterday I presented at the 11th Annual Electronic Documents & Records Management conference (on change management) and heard a remarkable presentation by Chris Scullin from Department …

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Crafting good anecdote circle questions

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 14, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

Successful anecdote circle facilitation hinges on the judicious use of open, story-eliciting questions. I’ve dashed off this short guide on how to create effective questions for …

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Getting to know Hunter S Thompson

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 14, 2005
Filed in Fun

My first ‘real’ job had me helping a few really talented guys build a software system designed to book cars for our parliamentarians. Not all of …

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Skimming over the organisational issues

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 14, 2005
Filed in Culture

James Dellow made the following comment: I think there are some barriers to blogging inside corporates that Shawn’s paper skims overs. For example, IT architecture, …

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Types of organisational narrative

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 9, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

Until recently (yesterday actually) I have differentiated two types of organisational stories: those crafted to persuade an audience—this approach is typified by Steve Denning’s work …

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Character traits

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 9, 2005
Filed in Business storytelling

When extracting archetypes from a body of narrative, I have found it useful to give the workshop participants a large list of character traits to …

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