Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Wiki Patterns

Posted by  Daryl Cook —August 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

We’re currently working on a knowledge project with a client, part of which involves setting up a collaborative environment for managing and editing content – …

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3 great conversation starting questions

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 15, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

I flew from Newcastle to Melbourne last night and had a fantastic two-hour chat with the lady in the next seat. By the end of …

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Narrative helps us use history appropriately

Posted by  Mark Schenk —August 11, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Matt Moore picks up on Shawn’s recent post about the relevance of history and gives some good guidelines for appropriate use of history. Matt’s post …

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Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 31, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I was having dinner with Etienne last week hosted by Bronwyn Stuckey—thanks Bron. I haven’t laughed so much for a long time. So it was …

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Quicklinks

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 29, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

Just cleaning up my Bloglines and thought I would share some of the posts I was saving. Brad Hinton reflects on oral history and storytelling …

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Converting your blog posts to wiki pages

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

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 …

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How to set a task in a complex work environment

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —July 17, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

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 …

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One of the many forces driving the need for knowledge retention practices

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 24, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

The ‘up or out’ policy is well known in consulting firms like McKinsey & Company. If you are not promoted in 5 years to partner …

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Three types of collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 21, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Nancy White and I have been working on a project to help our client enhance their collaboration practices. In the process we’ve identified three types …

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Distributed teams and the bane of time zones

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —June 19, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

Lynda Gratton at MITSloan has written a short article of some factors that might affect the performance of a distributed team. I’m a little sceptical …

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