Archive for March, 2007

Join Anecdote and make a difference

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 25, 2007
Filed in News

Things are continuing to grow here at Anecdote and we are again looking for someone to join our little crew. We would love to work …

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Assessing the impact of arseholes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 25, 2007
Filed in Culture

Bob Sutton is on a campaign against workplace arseholes. In yesterday’s post he describes Rob Cross’ work on social network analysis. In particular he looks …

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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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Shell’s blue book – a fine example of storytelling

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 22, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

In 2001 Shell collected a bunch of stories and put them together in a booklet now know as the Blue Book, but with the official title …

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Sensemaking

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 20, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

This description of sensemaking makes the most sense to me. Sensemaking involves turning circumstances into a situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that …

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Impressive palindromes

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 18, 2007
Filed in Fun

Check out the original Bob Dylan version. Tags: Weird+Al+Yankovic, Bob+Dylan

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Identifying a story

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 18, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

I’m just in the process of building up some reflections for my workshop in Boston (you’re most welcome to register and attend) in a couple of weeks …

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Why use business narrative techniques?

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —March 17, 2007
Filed in Anecdotes

Whenever someone asks me this question I tell them this story. One of our first narrative projects was to help a government department assess their …

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Communities of Practice – a strategic technology?

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 15, 2007
Filed in Collaboration

I saw the slide pack from a Gartner briefing today. It listed the ‘Top 10 Technologies for 2007’. Included in the list was ‘communiites and …

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Thinking strategically about communities of practice

Posted by  Mark Schenk —March 14, 2007
Filed in Collaboration, Strategy

I have just returned from the UK and from co-delivering a training program for new CoP coordinators in a global company. It was a great …

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