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Scientific America takes note of 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 …
Read MoreStaff induction – not quite
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 …
Read MoreSeeing the Big Picture: Blind Men and the Elephant
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 …
Read MoreThe stonecutters and the cathedral builder
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 …
Read MoreWhat an artist and computer scientist can do with stories
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 …
Read MoreBeing a connector has its risks
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 …
Read MoreTrust creating behaviours
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 …
Read MoreA bunch of Robert McKee resources
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 …
Read MoreUnfinished business enhances mindfulness
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 …
Read MoreCool blog posts that I don’t mention
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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