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Getting management buy-in
The actKM list has a discussion underway to collect stories of how people have (either successfully or otherwise) tried to get management support for their …
Read MoreKeeping the momentum going after an open space
A few months ago I facilitated an open space session for a group of knowledge coordinators working in a government agency. We spent the day …
Read MoreThe 1st Annual Symposium on Meaning Making in Organisations
Mark, Andrew and I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Australian National University’s Symposium on Meaning Making in Organisations. The event was organised by Paul …
Read MoreSharing the seeds
In October for the past 36 years Half Moon Bay in California holds a pumpkin competition. The biggest pumpkin grown in a season wins. One …
Read MoreThe Power of Archetypes in Creating Meaning
My nine year old daughter (she’s now 13) is an avid reader. She loves the Harry Potter series and reads them repeatedly. This voracious appetite for …
Read MoreDynamic equilibrium in a KM program
I started blogging in 2002, first using Radiolands then Blogger. As many Anecdote readers would be unaware of my ordinal posts I thought I would …
Read MoreOpen and closed language in facilitation
It was during one of my first strategic planning workshop facilitations when I noticed it. This was in a time before I discovered open space facilitation. The …
Read MoreDescribing your company values
In 2004 I helped a large bank conduct a narrative project to examine trust in a call centre. They had just finished working on their …
Read MoreThinking about facilitation
Catching up with Johnnie Moore for lunch was great. During lunch we got onto the topic of ‘What is facilitation, anyway’. Drawing on the wisdoms (or …
Read MoreBusiness users are set to by-pass IT departments
I had lunch with Serafino De Simone at Microhelp last week. Serafino has been running his IT company since the 80’s and based on that experience …
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