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The fragility of trust
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 …
Read MoreArchitectures of control
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 …
Read MoreCollecting stories – the role of the imaginary person
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 …
Read MoreDecision games
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 …
Read MoreSteve Denning picks up on story-listening
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. …
Read MoreTaking on new tasks
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 …
Read MoreThree principles for learning
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, …
Read MoreConverting your blog posts to wiki pages
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 …
Read MoreHow to set a task in a complex work environment
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 …
Read MoreThe Melbournians
It’s always nice to put a face to a name. Here’s Daryl, Robyn and me.
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