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Home Comforts not Sun Tzu
The military metaphor is dominant in many organisations. How many times have you heard colleagues talking about doing battle, gathering the troops, working in headquarters, …
Read MorePracticing identifying anecdotes
Our narrative technique relies on the identification and extraction of anecdotes, typically from transcriptions. The ability to quickly identify an anecdote comes with practice so …
Read MoreUnderstanding creative commons
In a matter of two weeks I’ve stumbled across the work of Larry Lessig. Last week I read about the Lessig presentation style at Presentation …
Read MoreOne week to register for the narrative techniques workshops
This is the last week before we run our narrative workshops in Sydney and Brisbane. If you want a really practical understanding of how to …
Read MoreActKM should abandon its conference
I would like ActKM to abandon the speaker-audience model in their conferences and adopt something radically different—discussions. Dave Winer sums the problem up beautifully: The …
Read MoreLive from ActKM
Andrew, Mark and I are currently at the ActKM conference in Canberra. So far it’s been the best ActKM conference in its six year history. …
Read MoreAnecdotes: transcribed or documented
Obviously anecdotes play a key role in our work. We use these real life business stories to help people see patterns that typically remain hidden using traditional …
Read MoreSensemaking: the role of stories
When something happens we like to tell others about it. This retelling of our experience often is done in the form of a story. “I can’t believe what …
Read MoreAre companies in Australia blogging?
A quick question for everyone. Are you aware of any Australian companies who are blogging inside the firewall? I’m working with a mid-sized professional service …
Read MoreActKM Conference is next week
This is the best KM conference in Australia because it consists of practitioners talking about how it is done – no vendor presentations. It’s a …
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