Archive for 2006

Cynefin software

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 23, 2006
Filed in News

Steve Bealing (CEO of Cynefin Software) spent 3 hours with Mark and I yesterday describing the new version of the Cynefin sense-making software. Exciting stuff. …

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Being happy with Not-Knowing

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —February 22, 2006
Filed in Communication, News

If you’re wondering where I’ve been, for the last 2 days at least (the rest is a whole other story), I’ve been at the Australian …

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Research supporting the role of intuition in complex situation

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 18, 2006
Filed in Insight

Nature has just reported on research which found people make better decisions by going with their gut if the situation is complex. The evidence is …

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Off to Singapore and Hong Kong

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 18, 2006
Filed in News

Mark and I are travelling to Singapore and Hong Kong tomorrow. We have a busy schedule including running a narrative techniques workshop in Hong Kong, …

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The Power of Archetypes in Creating Meaning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 17, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

My nine year old daughter (she’s now 13) is an avid reader. She loves the Harry Potter series and reads them repeatedly. This voracious appetite for …

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A suggested improvement to social network analysis

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 16, 2006
Filed in Culture

I was reflecting on the last social network analysis we did and it occurred to me that the survey response  might be heavily influenced by what was happening just …

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Dynamic equilibrium in a KM program

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 14, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

I started blogging in 2002, first using Radiolands then Blogger. As many Anecdote readers would be unaware of my ordinal posts I thought I would …

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Rebuilding a community of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Last month actKM faced a disaster. On the 15th January YahooGroups deleted the actKM group. It’s a long story and not really the point of …

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Who said determining the cause and effect was easy?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in News

The clever folk over at Cognitive Daily showed us some experiments that suggest that determining cause and effect relationships depends on what you are looking …

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Knowledge hoarding

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 12, 2006
Filed in Communication

Kaye Vivien asks the question: knowledge hoarding (is it real?) Absolutely! is my answer. The term ‘hoarding’ suggests a premeditated attempt to hide something away …

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