Author Archive

The fragility of trust

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 25, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

A friend of mine is a lawyer, and a good one at that. Our families just spent a week together in Mossy Point on the …

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Architectures of control

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 24, 2007
Filed in Culture

Just discovered this interesting blog on how designers are using the built environment to control our behaviour. There is an interesting post on how a …

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Collecting stories – the role of the imaginary person

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 23, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling

Aiden Choles has just posted a nice piece on how he used role play within an anecdote circle to collect stories. This is how it …

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Decision games

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 21, 2007
Filed in Decision-making, Insight

Decision games are a way to practice making judgements before you need to make them. They consist of a scenario that a group of people …

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Steve Denning picks up on story-listening

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

I was just reading Steve Denning’s latest newsletter and I noticed that he has picked up on the importance of story-listening in his latest book. …

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Taking on new tasks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 20, 2007
Filed in Communication, Culture

A few posts ago I described how you can delegate tasks in a way that informs people with what they need to know to do …

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Three principles for learning

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 19, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

My wife, Sheenagh, went to a conference on literacy last week. She’s a primary school teacher and teaches a 1st grade class. One the speakers, …

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Converting your blog posts to wiki pages

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Today I worked out a neat hack to get our blog posts from Ecto into our wiki without having to reformat. Simply view the html …

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How to set a task in a complex work environment

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

One of the most useful books I own is Gary Klein’s “Intuition at Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better at What …

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The Melbournians

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 14, 2007
Filed in News

It’s always nice to put a face to a name. Here’s Daryl, Robyn and me.

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