Archive for January, 2008
Collaboration’s resurgence
Everywhere I turn recently and I hear people talking about the need to collaborate as if the idea was new. Why has collaboration become the …
Read MoreAn exciting storytelling event in Copenhagen – the movie
Late last year I teamed up with Madelyn Blair, Terrence Gargiulo, Michael Margolis, Limor Shiponi, and Karen Dietz to start a new community of practice …
Read MoreStorytelling, Business Narrative and Community of Practice Workshops
2008 marks a busy year for Anecdote and this graphic gives you an idea of our workshop schedule. Storytelling is represented with bears, business narrative …
Read MoreStarting a community of practice – fostering relationships
In starting any community of practice, the first objective is to help the members recognise the value they will get from being and working together. …
Read MoreWhy sensemaking is vital
I was listening to Melvyn Bragg’s radio program, In Our Time , this morning on my iPod. The topic was Albert Camus. In discussing his …
Read MoreThoughts to actions
The best thing we could do for ourselves is reflect on the way we think. I read that in a book once (as a wisdom …
Read MoreUsing a story spine for a reflection activity
During a workshop I was recently involved in, I introduced the story spine to a couple of participants to help them to tell a story …
Read MoreThe Beams of New College, Oxford
Another find from the filing cabinet clean up. This time an anecdote from Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn. This story was recorded by Brand from …
Read MoreThe intuitive mind
I’m in the process of cleaning out my filing cabinets today—what joy—and discovered this quote: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift And the rational …
Read MoreConference call practices to generate knowledge and record learning
John Smith and I worked together last year using Google Docs to create this practice note on ways to get the most from conference calls.
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