Archive for March, 2007

Make it explicit when…

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 13, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

The following four conditions are cited as factors that communities of practice might consider in deciding whether something should be made explicit: it is relatively …

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Nature of business narrative

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 13, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

Some people think a story must have a plot, character development, a protagonist, a turning point and a resolution. This might be true of a …

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Intuition and decision making

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 12, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, News

Margie Borschke interviewed me a while back and wrote this article on decision making. Tags: margie+borschke, intuition, decision+making

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Future stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 12, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Strategy

A simple way to help people develop stories of how their organisation might operate in the future is to ask them to consider specific triggering …

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Using video to capture stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 8, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

There are two examples on the web you should check out. 50 Lessons is a subscription video library of senior executives recounting their experiences. It’s …

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Meeting you in the US of A

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 6, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Events

Towards the end of this month I will be in Seattle, Boston and Las Vegas. If you are in or near any of these cities …

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Ira Glass on the power of anecdotes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 3, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

Ira Glass in a public radio producer and host of This American Life. In this video Ira describes the anecdote as one of the two …

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Revitalising communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 3, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I’m truly blessed in knowing lots of interesting people. I don’t mean to boast but this morning it really dawned on me. I’m very lucky. …

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Three dimensions of story

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 2, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Several weeks ago, while preparing a presentation on the use of story in organisations. I came up with quite a long list of ways story is …

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Over a 1,000 downloads of the ultimate guide to anecdote circles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 1, 2007
Filed in News

I just noticed that we have reached the milestone of over 1,000 downloads of our guide on how to run anecdote circles. Just click on …

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