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The meme of control

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Communication, Culture

Thinking over how pervasive (and problematic?) the notion of control appears to be in organisations I was inspired to write a little piece around it. Here’s …

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Open Space Training in Melbourne

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 12, 2006
Filed in Events

Viv McWaters and Brian Bainbridge are running their marvelous Open Space training next week 16th – 18th here in Melbourne. As Viv says: You’ve heard …

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SNA Sensemaking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Social Network Analysis has spent alot of its evolution and development down in the weeds where the expert has been king. Crunching and analysing. Not …

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Bridges and Hubs in Social Networks

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 11, 2006
Filed in Communication

When it comes to Social Network Analysis (SNA) a common practice is to use centrality measures such as Betweenness (Bridgeness), Closeness and Degree. For instance, …

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Opening our Anecdote Shop

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —May 10, 2006
Filed in News

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping”. As a patient husband who has trekked around my share of shops …

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Phase changes in social systems

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 28, 2006
Filed in Culture

You may have heard of the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing metaphor for team development. This metaphor provides a lens by which you can view a groups evolution through the …

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Facilitation for engineers and scientists

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 19, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

It’s interesting how I’ve found myself drawn into discussion lately around the difficulties of facilitating engineers and scientists. If facilitating engineers and scientists is difficult, …

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Silencing the facilitator – looking at facilitator turn taking

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 9, 2006
Filed in Communication

An interesting and thought provoking post by Johnnie Moore on Trust, Control, Power, Silence. I’ve been reflecting a lot on the notion of silence in …

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3 big problems for social network analysis

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 7, 2006
Filed in Communication

You’ve probably noticed that Social Network Analysis is experiencing a surge in popularity. As a result many organisations are likely to invest significant time, effort …

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Making social network analysis more social

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —April 3, 2006
Filed in Events

There sure is a lot of talk going on about Social Network Analysis. What you probably haven’t heard of however is a Sensemaking approach to Social …

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