The corporate memory-makers
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 12, 2010 10:35:50 AM
An interesting, if slightly underdone, article in today's FT: Management - The corporate memory-makers.
The Mathom of Destiny
by Tony Quinlan on Dec 25, 2009 11:13:40 AM
Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating and here's to a fabulous 2010. 2009 has been an exciting ride - made so much better by the people I've worked with this year.
Admitting to difficult choices
by Tony Quinlan on Dec 4, 2009 12:29:41 PM
A recent conversation came round to an interesting communications point. A really important one, although it looks a bit pedantic:
Leeds Castle Leadership - the communications piece
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 12, 2009 6:30:28 PM
Thanks to everyone at the Leeds Castle leadership event today - a whistle-stop challenge on communications, with an abbreviated Anecdote Circle thrown in. At the break a few of us were talking about The Future, Backwards and, naturally, I recommended Gary Klein's Sources of Power.
The family stories, the family myths and Faure's Requiem
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 2, 2009 4:38:51 PM
Spent last night at Merton College, Oxford, for a beautifully performed memorial service, with Faure's Requiem. The annual service for Mertonians who had died in the past year. My father and both of his brothers had gone to Merton - and two of them had died this year. The choir and mu …
Playing with SenseMakerTM
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 7, 2009 10:58:15 PM
On Monday this week, I spent the day with four smart people playing with Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker software and a collection of just over 1500 stories. What was most encouraging was that, up to that point, most of us had used it and looked at material and wondered why we didn't get …
Upcoming conference
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 12, 2009 4:48:35 PM
I've agreed a couple of further public engagements in the first quarter of 2009, and won't be taking any more conferences/internal events now until after April/May, although I'm happy to talk now about later events.
KCUK - Building a change management strategy
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 10, 2008 11:21:00 AM
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's workshop at the KCUK conference. Various odds and sods off the back of the session:
Who used to run the Rovers Return?
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 7, 2008 10:38:52 PM
So much of what we in Narrate do is pure common sense, but comes as a revelation to lots of people. One example is the Future, Backwards technique. It's a Cognitive Edge-developed tool that's excellent for all sorts of reasons above and beyond the obvious one of using it to debate/ima …