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Don’t tell me what to do, tell me a story
Last week I returned from my morning walk to find my 11–year-old daughter filling the blender with ice cream to make a banana smoothie. My …
Read MoreFinding success stories
Have you ever been asked to find success stories and been unsure where to start? Done well success stories slide effortlessly from one teller to the …
Read MoreA great place to open space
I spent the past few days facilitating an event at the Mountain Heritage Resort at Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. It is a great …
Read MoreOrganisational stories
A friend of a friend of our is a frequent business traveller. Let’s call him Dave. Dave was recently in Atlantic City for an important …
Read MoreThe power of ordinary practices
An article titled ‘The power of ordinary practices’ was the seventh ‘most read’ of Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge articles for 2006. The articles includes …
Read MoreHierarchy of explaination or why narrative is becoming more important
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 …
Read MoreHow can you become a better facilitator?
Almost a month ago after identifying some metaphors which described various styles of facilitation (eg. Conductor, Chameleon, Dictator) I asked What kind of facilitator are you? Following on …
Read MoreThe Open Space Fishbowl – A new way to an energised conversation
A few months ago Larry Peterson and I discovered and tested a great way to apply the Principles and Law of Open Space Technology to a …
Read MoreTesting your company’s ethics-sensitivity
I was chatting to a HR Manager from a financial services firm this week and he told me this story about a workshop a management ethicist ran …
Read MoreTurning information security upside down
Just a small thought for the day. I was chatting to the knowledge manager for a large Defence contractor today and he mentioned he’s having …
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