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Generation WE

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2008
Filed in Communication, Culture

Collaboration framework

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —November 2, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Organisations need simple ways to create a common understanding about what needs to be done. Our collaboration framework aims to provide two perspectives: the dashed …

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Narrative medicine

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 25, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Doctors can easily get into the pattern of treating their patients like a slab of meat to be fixed. Anyone who’s spent some time in …

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Storytelling for Business Leaders – London

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 23, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Today we’ve set the date for our Storytelling for Business Leaders workshop to be held in London. I’m looking forward to this trip and catching …

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One simple behaviour to improve collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 23, 2008
Filed in Collaboration, Culture

From talking with people who are trying to improve their collaboration capability, I’m detecting a scepticism with the practice of getting your team or community …

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Money as debt

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 22, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

I was amazed when I watched this presentation about the history of banking. I had no idea that banks could conjure money from nowhere and …

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Correction

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 22, 2008
Filed in News

Correction: In a blog post on the 19 July 2008 I incorrectly identified Lorenz Grollo for Daniel Grollo, Equiset for Grocon and Franco for Lorenzo. …

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Ensure your collaborator has a strategy

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 14, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

Collaboration is often hard and it takes time—time to build the relationships, time to clear up misunderstandings, time to listen and time to get things …

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Please elaborate

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 7, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Examples, especially in the form of stories, help us make sense of what someone is saying. This is partly because when we listen to an …

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MLA London knowledge transfer project

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —October 6, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

MLA stands for Museums and Libraries Association and my friend Victoria Ward has recently finished a tremendous project using narrative techniques to help MLA London …

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