Archive for 2006

From little things big things grow

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 25, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

I was writing a paper today describing our story-based approach to change and remembered Paul Kelly’s song, From Little Things Big Things Grow. I’d never read …

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Strong opinions, weakly held

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 24, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

One of the my favourite blogs at the moment is Bob Sutton’s Work Matters. He’s an academic at Stanford who has a practical view of …

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Sensemaking using heuristics

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 21, 2006
Filed in Culture

Sensemaking is described as how we make sense of the world so we can act meaningfully in it. One of the ways we make sense …

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Storytelling versus story-writing

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 21, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

One way we help businesses learn and change is to help them find and collect their stories. These business stories are not fancy, crafted stories …

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IBM’s Innovation Jam

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 19, 2006
Filed in Events

IBM seems to be taking its WorldJam technology to the streets and letting everyone take a look. Since IBM’s first Jam in 2001 (I was …

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Be an early bird – From story disaster to story master

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 17, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Here are three signs that you could benefit from our storytelling workshop: Ever felt limited by a ‘dot-point’ type mentality? You find yourself in meetings …

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Being an Expert on Anything

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 17, 2006
Filed in Fun

Stephen Colbert, the comedian who brought us the devastating roast of George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner, has outlined how you can …

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Group vs individual brainstorming

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 17, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Bob Sutton has noticed that the Wall Street Journal is reporting research suggesting that individual brainstorming (some have called it brain-writing) is more effective that …

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A new applicaton to support Most Significant Change projects

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 16, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

Most Significant Change is a monitoring technique based on the collection and selection of stories. The technique involves collecting stories, gathering people together to talk …

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The first Australian government blog

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 15, 2006
Filed in News

This might be a bold statement, but I think the Victorian Public Sector Continuous Improvement Network (VPSCIN) blog might be the first Australian government (federal …

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