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Scientific America takes note of storytelling

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 1, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

I was excited to see the current issue of Scientific America has an article on storytelling called The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a …

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Staff induction – not quite

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 1, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

Last year Robyn and I ran an interesting project for a large government agency to help Aboriginal people join the department and become productive as …

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Seeing the Big Picture: Blind Men and the Elephant

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 27, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by …

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The stonecutters and the cathedral builder

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 27, 2008
Filed in Anecdotes, Business storytelling

Here is one of the stories I heard at KM Australia as told by John Girard. On a foggy autumn day nearly 800 years ago …

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What an artist and computer scientist can do with stories

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 26, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

Jonathan Harris loves playing around with stories and in this 20 minute presentation at the 2007 TED he gives three examples of his work. He …

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Being a connector has its risks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 25, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

New research has shown that we notice popular people and don’t notice unpopular people. OK, so we probably didn’t need research to tell us that …

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Trust creating behaviours

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 24, 2008
Filed in Culture

I went to KM Australia this week and the issue of trust was mentioned many times. I noticed, however, that very few people went beyond …

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A bunch of Robert McKee resources

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 21, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

I think one of the first books I read on storytelling was Story by Robert McKee. It’s written from the perspective of a screenwriter and …

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Unfinished business enhances mindfulness

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 18, 2008
Filed in Business storytelling

The story goes that Bluma Zeigarnik was sitting in a cafe in Vienna (as all good psychologists do) and noticed that the waiters were able …

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Cool blog posts that I don’t mention

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 15, 2008
Filed in Employee Engagement, News

I’m sure you have plenty of things to read and another stream of information is the last thing you are interested in. But for those …

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