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Dreadful managers

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 16, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

How do they get away with such appalling behaviour? I’ve seen some dreadful displays by managers who seem to revel in the power and forgetting …

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Storytelling and social media

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 14, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Jennifer Jones mentions that she has been working with Intel on the social media activities and how storytelling plays an important role in Intel’s success …

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Intelligence agencies adopting social software

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 12, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I’m giving a presentation to the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) conference in October so I’m keeping my eye out for relevant news …

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How to make your workplace more storyable

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —September 9, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Story techniques are becoming popular but I do worry that people will become overly focussed on capturing stories with the hope that someone will search …

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“Yellow Pages” is a registered trademark of Telstra

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 31, 2007
Filed in News

Just a warning to everyone out there who is using the term “Yellow Pages” to describe the people directories you might develop to implement knowledge …

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Mooers’ law

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 30, 2007
Filed in Communication

I was reading Ambient Findability this morning at breakfast and found this law posited by Calvin Mooers in 1959. An information retrieval system will tend …

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Tacit Knowledge Retention with Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 27, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Last year I wrote this short paper arguing that communities of practice were an effective strategy to transfer tacit knowledge. This week we gave the …

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IBM software – social software for the enterprise

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 24, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

I used to work with Jimmy Kwang at IBM. He was a terrific supporter of the Cynefin Centre and I must say a terrific host. …

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A short history of Anecdote

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 23, 2007
Filed in Strategy

On the weekend I created this presentation about how we got started and I describe some of the projects we’ve done. There are five parts. …

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Naturally incorporating stories in your conversations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —August 21, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Annette Simmons, in her excellent book The Story Factor, warns us from adopting ‘the story voice.’ You know the one. The narrator starts by saying …

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