Archive for 2006

Change your story – Change your world

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 14, 2006
Filed in Fun

What happens when you cross a well known Improv guru with a company passionate about story? You get a new workshop, of course! With Izzy …

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The art of complex problem solving

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 14, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Check out this link from Marshall Clemens, a talented complexity graphics designer. Probably one of the most comprehensive diagrams I’ve ever seen regarding complex systems thinking.

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Why organisations find Most Significant Change useful

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 11, 2006
Filed in Communication

I was re-reading the Most Significant Change Guide developed by Rick Davies and Jess Dart today (their manual is an excellent resource available freely on …

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Stories are a form of taskonomy

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 11, 2006
Filed in Culture

I’ve just discovered a new word which I love: taskonomy. Donald Norman uses it to describe how we arrange things around us to get our …

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Clear Horizon is running Most Significant Change training

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 10, 2006
Filed in Events

Jess Dart, an Anecdote Associate, is running her excellent Most Significant Change training in October. If you are interested in learning how to assess the …

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Narrative techniques for knowledge management

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 9, 2006
Filed in Events

Many thanks to yesterday’s workshop participants for their tremendous participation and openness in sharing their many insights. It was a really good day and everybody …

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Positive deviance

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 9, 2006
Filed in Insight

One of the concepts of Appreciative Inquiry is to identify the positive deviants in a system and to find out what it is they are …

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Ignite your story telling

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 7, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

When it comes to being an effective fire fighter, fire science has come up with the fire triangle. The fire triangle is a simple model …

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Sensemaking starts with noticing

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 6, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

Oscar Wilde once remarked, “there was no fog in London before Whistler painted it.” Wilde was referring to Whistler’s, Chelsea Wharf, and making the point that …

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Are organisations losing their humanity?

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —August 4, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

For some time now we have wondered whether organisations may be starting to lose their humanity. Maybe its a good question whether they ever had …

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