Looking past what survived to what fell
by Tony Quinlan on May 28, 2014 3:55:43 PM
In among the various podcasts I listen to is You Are Not So Smart - an educating and entertaining podcast much of the time. I caught the latest episode when I was travelling and it's highly pertinent to a couple of projects I'm working on at the moment - it was titled Survivorship Bia …
Toronto KM meeting - slides
by Tony Quinlan on May 15, 2014 4:18:25 PM
Thanks to everyone who came out last night despite the hockey game in Toronto to sit in a warm room for the Toronto KM group session.
The evolution of practice - SenseMaker® in Development
by Tony Quinlan on May 13, 2014 11:24:00 AM
I’ve been working with SenseMaker® now in development projects for a few years and I was recently reflecting on how far we’ve come in what we do. Lots of lessons - often learned the hard way in the early stages, but never disastrously. It’s time to share some of those lessons, for any …
Getting more good results - while avoiding the "Best Practice" trap
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 17, 2014 6:54:14 PM
The greatest obstacle to better practice, to better results and to better impacts is the temptation to replicated what has worked elsewhere. It's a huge temptation - reinforced by academic programmes, self-help books and conference presentations that focus on "Here's what worked somew …
Down Your Way - New York, Toronto, Addis Ababa, Mexico City
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 14, 2014 11:29:00 AM
Through April and May, I've got a few trips in the diary. While there's plenty going on at each stop, I'd like to open up the trip to other conversations than just my own.
Toronto - 4 courses in May 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 9, 2014 1:56:26 PM
The excellent Cognitive Edge courses are running again soon - I'm due to be teaching with Michael in Toronto in May - details are here. (The venue isn't confirmed yet, but that's a decision depending on how many people we get turning, so go ahead and book quickly!)
Partnership for Peace - StratComs course slides
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 28, 2014 12:41:50 AM
A lightning visit today to Ankara, for a presentation this morning on narrative to the expected intelligent comments and questions at the Partnership for Peace course which has been running all week.
Halting narratives
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 25, 2014 7:03:29 PM
I'm off to Colombia next week for the latest element of a great project to look at entrepreneurial attitudes across the country - this trip is to present some interim findings, develop some experimental interventions that we'll monitor in the next phase of the project.
How do we draw attention to an absence?
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 24, 2014 12:37:43 PM
Monday reflections on a fascinating previous week, including a great all-day session on Thursday with EU DIGIT, weaving together outputs from a SenseMaker® project, the Cynefin framework, safe-to-fail experiments and some methods from the Cognitive Edge trainings. (It's always good to …
Your answer or your action?
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 21, 2014 6:36:17 PM
A quick one this - I've just spotted Seth Godin's two-line blogpost today: