Archive for April, 2008

Leading from the front…complexity management basics for CEOs

Posted by  Robyn —April 15, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes

The damaging windstorm in Melbourne two weeks ago gave me an interesting insight into how poorly prepared the leadership of our energy organisations were to …

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2020 Summit—storytelling advice to summiteers

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 14, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

The Australia 2020 Summit promises to bring together the nation’s best and brightest brains in a bid to discover new ideas to take the country …

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2020 Summit

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 13, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling, Strategy

Andrew Leigh went to the 2020 summit warm up yesterday in Canberra. It was the ACT 2020 summit and the lesson he will be taking …

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Why should we care about mystery stories?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 11, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Robert Cialdini discovered a secret to learning in 2005. As a world-leading psychologist he was surprised he didn’t already know this secret but now swears …

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The Mistake Bank

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 10, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

John Caddell has an interesting project he’s just started called The Mistake Bank. It’s a place to tell stories of some of your biggest stuff …

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An expansion of People, Process and Technology

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 10, 2008
Filed in Employee Engagement

“We have to consider people, process and technology.” It’s a phrase I hear quite often, especially among IT folk. Sometimes they say, “people, process, technology …

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Footprints in time

Posted by  Mark Schenk —April 8, 2008
Filed in Culture, Events

Chandni and I have just returned from the official launch of Footprints in Time, a longitudinal study of indigenous children designed to identify the things …

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Storytelling for Business Leaders Workshop in Sydney

Posted by  chandni —April 7, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

We can all tell stories about our childhood quite easily. What about our work, our workplace, our business? That seems far from easy. People tend …

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Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 6, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

If you are interested in establishing and fostering communities of practice, and in particular are keen to understand the role social technologies such as blogs, …

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Building a collaboration capability – the quick quiz

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 5, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

A while back we talked about three types of collaboration: team, community and network. So here’s a quick quiz to help you understand just how …

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