Archive for 2008

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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Craftsmanship

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 4, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Every good craftsman conducts a dialogue between concrete practices and thinking; this dialogue evolves into sustaining habits, the these habits establish a rhythm between problem …

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A poem about Anecdote

Posted by  Daryl Cook —April 3, 2008
Filed in Fun

Matt Moore, a good friend of ours, kindly offered to write a poem about Anecdote. So that he had some material to work with, Matt …

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Jumpstart storytelling – creating the conditions for collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 1, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

When we start on a major change project we will often run a number of workshops with the leadership team to really get them to …

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Stories make the best rides

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 27, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Yesterday my family and I spent the day at Movie World. At the end of the day we went to an Irish pub for dinner …

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Making sense of history

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 25, 2008
Filed in Communication

I am reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I enjoyed his description of how history is extremely opaque; how “you see what comes …

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