Archive for 2007
Three types of collaboration
Nancy White and I have been working on a project to help our client enhance their collaboration practices. In the process we’ve identified three types …
Read MoreThe art of editing a story for emotional impact
I wont say much at all here except go read this post by Les Posen (and definitely watch the YouTube video). It features a Welshman …
Read MoreThe difficulty in being the expert interpreting a story
Scientific American.com has an amusing piece by Steve Mirsky that highlights one of the reasons why experts shouldn’t attempt to interpret stories—there are many truths …
Read MoreDistributed teams and the bane of time zones
Lynda Gratton at MITSloan has written a short article of some factors that might affect the performance of a distributed team. I’m a little sceptical …
Read MoreJohn F. Kennedy and the French Revolution
I heard this anecdote last week. John Kennedy was meeting the Premier of China and during some initial small talk Kennedy asked the Premier what …
Read MoreWhy people don’t use collaboration tools
David Pollard offered for anyone on the net to join him is a joint collaboration project using Writely. The topic: Why are conversation and collaboration …
Read MoreThe little things that give you insight into the culture
The anecdote below, told by a participant in a recent workshop, really made me stop and think. There are lots of lessons it, not least …
Read MorePosts you might have missed from the archives
We’ve been blogging at Anecdote now since 2004. And even before that I had two previous blogging attempts, one using Radio Lands and the other …
Read MoreKnowledge management jobs in Hong Kong
Eric Tsui asked me to let you know he has a couple of jobs going in Hong Kong. Here are the details. THE HONG KONG …
Read MoreDemonstration of Zahmoo and Sensemaker
For those of you who will be coming to our workshop in Sydney, we will be demonstrating our new Web 2.0 service called Zahmoo as …
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