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Narrative for Business Workshops in the USA

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 18, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Events

Update: referral bonus for bloggers. See below. We are pleased to announce that we’re running two narrative techniques workshops in the USA at Seattle and …

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A new conceptualisation of expertise, advice and knowledge

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 16, 2007
Filed in Insight

This looks really interesting: Expertise is about more than evidence. It is also about judgement and wisdom. Our argument is not that we should reject …

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Wow, is this really what a knowledge map looks like?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 15, 2007
Filed in Insight

Here’s a good idea. A neat compilation of a range of visualisation techniques arranged in the form of a periodic table. I was checking out …

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Let’s Be Brief story writing contest

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 14, 2007
Filed in Fun

Bob Hruzek over at Middle Zone Musings is kicking off a story writing contest tomorrow, with a difference: best story wins but it can only be six …

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Why Command And Control Is So Bad

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 14, 2007
Filed in Strategy

Bruce Nussbaum over at BusinessWeek Online has written a short piece entitled: Lessons From Home Depot’s Bob Nardelli—Why Command And Control Is So Bad. Autocratic …

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Hierarchy of explaination or why narrative is becoming more important

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 9, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

In 1805 William Clark notes in his expedition journal that the Mandans [a Native American tribe] believed that buffalos could be attracted to close-by hunting grounds by …

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Postdoc in KM Technologies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 8, 2007
Filed in Leadership Posts, News

An opportunity exists for a postdoctoral research fellow to work on KM technologies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from 2007. The successful candidate …

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Why people do the things they do

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 27, 2006
Filed in Strategy

Christmas reading has help me stumble across two very different essays with the same theme: people are enormously influenced by their social ties. Anyone reading …

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Blog-tag: a virtual cocktail party

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 21, 2006
Filed in Fun

Luis Suarez over at ELSUA has just tagged me in a virtual cocktail party. What does that mean? I gather that when you’re tagged you tell five …

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Foster your communities of practice by getting members to answer questions

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 21, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

Kathy Sierra had made an astute observation about user communities: they thrive if more people, from novice to expert, ask and answer questions. In fact, …

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