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There are lots of good comments on my post, The importance of deliberate practice and I was prompted to write this one based on Tony …

Last week I gave a presentation to the Canberra Pecha Kucha group on complexity. I subsequently recorded the presentation and loaded it to youtube. Pecha …

I just noticed that Fast Company expert blogger Thomas Clifford has listed Shawn as one of 7 interesting storytellers to follow on Twitter. I better …

It took me a little while to work out what was happening. I snapped my first photo of the motor scooter with clip board attached …

Three weeks ago I arrived in London for a couple of weeks work and a couple weeks holiday. One of my must-see destinations was the …

I can’t remember who first said to me “you have two ears and one mouth, and you should use them in that proportion” but it …

I am working on a project requiring a major organisational transformation. On Monday, the division’s chief heads off to Canberra to get a mandate to …

Senator Kate Lundy hosted yesterday’s Publicsphere #2 event on Government 2.0. I attended Parliament House for the morning and ‘watched’ online throughout the afternoon (using …

I started work this week on a major change project. Our ‘three journeys‘ concept for embedding change and making strategies stick is really resonating. I …

On Tuesday I worked with three new communities of practice in a government agency. Each group was quite different but in all of them we …