Archive for 2006

GAP Forum and increasing links in a social network

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 14, 2006
Filed in Communication

I was invited to attend the GAP Forum on Leveraging Networks in Business last week and caught up with some old friends like John Finnigan and …

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Westpac’s use of Cynefin techniques

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 14, 2006
Filed in News

As a Cynefin practitioner and a business partner of the Cynefin Centre (soon to be renamed I hear) it is always good to see some …

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Tapping into the right brain through sensemaking

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 10, 2006
Filed in Communication

In January, I described Communities of Practice as ‘the right brain of the organisation’, and Shawn recently posted about the role of sensemaking in creating …

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Silencing the facilitator – looking at facilitator turn taking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 9, 2006
Filed in Communication

An interesting and thought provoking post by Johnnie Moore on Trust, Control, Power, Silence. I’ve been reflecting a lot on the notion of silence in …

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3 big problems for social network analysis

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 7, 2006
Filed in Communication

You’ve probably noticed that Social Network Analysis is experiencing a surge in popularity. As a result many organisations are likely to invest significant time, effort …

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Modelling Human Ecosystems with Agents

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 7, 2006
Filed in Events

Pascal Perez is running a short course in Canberra I thought you might like to know about. Here are the details: Modelling Human Ecosystems with Agents …

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Making social network analysis more social

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 3, 2006
Filed in Events

There sure is a lot of talk going on about Social Network Analysis. What you probably haven’t heard of however is a Sensemaking approach to Social …

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Some complexity quotes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 3, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

I’m always on the lookout for good quotes. I found these in the forward to Michael Lissack and Johan Roos’ book The Next Common Sense: …

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Little things make a big difference

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 3, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

In working with organisations using business narrative, one of the objectives is to identify a suite of interventions intended to move things in the desired …

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How to get the best out of training

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 2, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

David Maister has posted a list of things organisations should do to get the most from their training efforts. Here are two points which I’ve …

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