Archive for the ‘Communication’ Category

Organisations not really doing Most Significant Change—the selection process

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —May 28, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

    Yesterday I discovered another large organisation who think they are using the Most Significant Change technique to evaluate their programs but they don’t …

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Communicating is tough

Posted by  Mark Schenk —May 28, 2007
Filed in Communication

We all know how tough it can be to get our message across at times. I vividly remember an occasion several years where I had …

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Corporate or business anthropologist?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 26, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

People are intrigued by the work we do at Anecdote. When they hear how we use stories in a business setting they often mistakenly think …

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Systematically seeking the other viewpoint

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 22, 2007
Filed in Business storytelling, Communication

I was pulled up short last week. A new book arrived from Amazon called Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn and I was delighted to …

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The need for walls?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —April 13, 2007
Filed in Communication, Culture

Dave Snowden is puzzled with one of my posts that mentions Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, when I say: “when you read the entire poem (in context) you …

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How work really gets done

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 22, 2007
Filed in Communication

I just entered my presentation on How work really gets done into the World’s Best Presentation Contest. It would be great if you popped on …

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An engineer’s paradise

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 27, 2007
Filed in Communication

“If it weren’t for the people, the god-damn people” said Finnerty, “always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world …

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The Craft of Connection

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 4, 2007
Filed in Communication

by Tim Laseter and Rob Cross Charlottesville, Va., January 31, 2007 — A growing number of companies, including Chevron, Halliburton, and Whirlpool, are seeking new …

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Exploring the language of facilitation

Posted by  Andrew Rixon —January 16, 2007
Filed in Communication, News

Do you facilitate groups? Have you ever thought about the language that you use whilst facilitating? What insights can language give you about your facilitation? …

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The PreMortem – anticipating a plan’s weaknesses

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 10, 2006
Filed in Collaboration, Communication

One of the techniques I’ve recently introduced to my projects is what Gary Klein calls a PreMortem. As we all know, a postmortem helps us learn why …

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