Archive for October, 2006

Facts and stories (go together like a horse and carriage)

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 15, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Steven Pinker says: “Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, …

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The world’s thinnest pen?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 15, 2006
Filed in Fun

I have a confession. I love stationery. Dave Snowden calls it the stationery gene and I’m sure it’s firmly embedded in my DNA. So I’ve …

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Nancy White and me at VPSCIN

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

Nancy and I facilitated a workshop this week for the Victorian Public Sector Continuous Improvement Network (VPSCIN) where we explored the relationship between communities of …

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Tag lines for knowledge strategies

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 13, 2006
Filed in Strategy

We’ve been helping a few organisations with knowledge strategies lately and discovered the power of knowledge strategy tag lines. This idea first came to us while we were …

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Which storybased techniques are most used?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 10, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Since completing our Australia wide survey on the attitudes and awareness of story and narrative approaches within organisations, I have been working my way through sharing …

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The Prato Dialog

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 8, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m on route home from Florence (at Heathrow) and I just wanted to get down some thoughts about the Prato Dialogue I’ve just attended. Eight …

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The people are the organisation

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 7, 2006
Filed in Communication, Leadership Posts

  It is the most ubiquitous platitude of corporate life: “People are our most important asset.” The undeniable reality, of course, is that the human …

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For successful change – Momentum = Mass x Velocity

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 6, 2006
Filed in Collaboration, Communication

Today the VPS Continuous Improvement Network experienced something unique. With Larry Peterson (a well known Canadian Open Space Practictioner) touring Australia, we had a great opportunity to try a new format …

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Australian managers intuit story most useful for culture change

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —October 5, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

When asked in our recent Australian wide survey on the attitudes and awareness of story and narrative in organisations “How much have you heard or …

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The actKM conference: 25-26 October

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 4, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

actKM is running its 7th annual conference on 25 and 26 October. This is the best KM conference in Australia because it consists of practitioners talking about how …

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