Author Archive

Individual intelligence can lead to collective stupidity

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 7, 2008
Filed in Strategy

I am reviewing Fred Kofman’s book ‘Conscious Business’ subtitled ‘How to build value through values. He uses a soccer game to illustrate ‘a puzzling paradox’ …

Read More

Collaboration by design

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 7, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Lend Lease has pretty good lineage when it comes to innovative practices on the KM front. Their iKonnect program started in 2000 and is a …

Read More

The pond metaphor

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 5, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Leadership Posts

Here is something I have meant to post about for a while. It is a metaphor in the book ‘Dangerous Undertaking‘ by James Harlow Brown. …

Read More

Another little thing….

Posted by  Mark Schenk —July 3, 2008
Filed in Fun

One of the things we talk about a lot is the power of ‘little things’ to make a difference in a complex environment. I saw …

Read More

Employee engagement interest in storytelling

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 30, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

A few weeks back, Alex Manchester from Melcrum interviewed me on various issues around storytelling. He approached me following the large amount of interest in …

Read More

Leaders need to listen

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 28, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Strategy

Deborah May provided the following account in her recent newsletter. Most leaders want to engage their team in planning processes but don’t always do so …

Read More

Internal blogging builds trust in leadership

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 15, 2008
Filed in Leadership Posts

In a blog post of 9 June over on The Melcrum Blog, Abi Signorelli describes how leaders in her organisation were blogging internally and how …

Read More

Collaboration paper generating interest

Posted by  Mark Schenk —June 13, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Our recent whitepaper ‘ Building a Collaborative Workplace‘ is generating some interest. An edited version was published in BRW last week and last night I …

Read More

The head office pattern

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 29, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

Smart people hate being told what to do. In many of our projects we see the ‘head office pattern’ where HO is seen as a …

Read More

Lost knowledge?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 26, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Fun

The building in the left foreground of the image is the historic Hyde Park Barracks Museum in Sydney. The building at the back behind the …

Read More