Author Archive

Weak signals

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 17, 2006
Filed in Communication

There is a discussion on ActKM this morning about weak signals and Dave Snowden has relayed some observations he heard from Gary Klein this week which …

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David Maister says training is useless

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 16, 2006
Filed in Employee Engagement

David has a thought provoking post about why most of the training people take in business is useless. I particularly liked his test of whether …

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A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 15, 2006
Filed in Communication

If I were to write a book laying out the argument for our Anecdote approaches, I couldn’t be happier if I’d written A Whole New …

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The data entry rat

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 12, 2006
Filed in Fun

My old friend David Pope drew this cartoon (and 2 others) for a paper we wrote in the mid 90s. I still get a chuckle …

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Sharing the seeds

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 11, 2006
Filed in Anecdotes

In October for the past 36 years Half Moon Bay in California holds a pumpkin competition. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season wins. One …

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Connector heuristics

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 10, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

Malcolm Gladwell’s post on a quick and dirty way of picking winning NBA Knicks teams got me thinking about other helpful heuristics. In particular I …

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Starting and Sustaining Communities of Practice – New Workshop

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 9, 2006
Filed in News

We are excited to announce our new Starting and Sustaining Communities of Practice workshop. We will run it in Melbourne and Canberra on the 19th …

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Andrew, Shawn & Mark

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 8, 2006
Filed in Fun

Andrew, Shawn & Mark Originally uploaded by Shawn Callahan. Just trying out how you can post to your blog from Flickr. This photo is of …

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Building trust and rapport in Anecdote circles

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 7, 2006
Filed in Business storytelling

There are many ingredients which make a successful anecdote circle, but one that eclipses all others is the level of trust that can be fostered …

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ActKM: the story of a community

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 5, 2006
Filed in Collaboration

A paper Trish Milne and I wrote over 12 months ago has just been published in the Journal of Knowledge Management. It’s called ActKM: the …

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