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Finding the domain for communities of practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 28, 2007
Filed in Culture

One of the key challenges in starting a community of practice is to find the right domain – the topic that people are passionate enough …

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Knowledge Strategy – an emphasis on action

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 21, 2007
Filed in Strategy

We have long advocated the importance of action over analysis in both our knowledge strategy and community of practice work and I blogged about the …

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Business Narrative Workshop – 3 December

Posted by  Mark Schenk —November 12, 2007
Filed in Events

Over the years we have refined our one-day Narrative Techniques for Business workshop and have it to the point we are proud of both the …

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Collaboration conditions

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 27, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

I was having a conversation last week about how easy it is to rob people of the permission to collaborate. Examples were provided of how …

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Why don’t they just follow the procedure?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 21, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

On 29-30 August, a USAF B-52 bomber mistakenly armed with six nuclear tipped cruise missiles, flew from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base …

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Power of storytelling

Posted by  Mark Schenk —October 1, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

We have blogged previously about 50 Lessons, a site featuring over 500 short videos of business leaders describing some of their key learnings. There are …

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Maister on Trust

Posted by  Mark Schenk —September 24, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Culture

David Maister has an excellent podcast series. Some time ago I listened to his podcast on earning trust and the useful way he provides to …

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Complexity described

Posted by  Mark Schenk —September 19, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Here is a great quote from Ursula K. LeGuin that succinctly describes complexity. It was posted by Kathleen Osta to the Open Space List earlier …

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3 great conversation starting questions

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 15, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

I flew from Newcastle to Melbourne last night and had a fantastic two-hour chat with the lady in the next seat. By the end of …

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Narrative helps us use history appropriately

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 11, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Matt Moore picks up on Shawn’s recent post about the relevance of history and gives some good guidelines for appropriate use of history. Matt’s post …

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