Blog | Changing organisations (4)

Solitude standing

by Tony Quinlan on Feb 1, 2011 11:47:00 AM

A colleague in an organisation I partner with recently asked me for a CV for the website. So far, so normal. Then they asked for a list of presentations - something I've never really pulled together before. So I delved through the conference folders to find those times when I've stood …

Topics: Organisational culture Narrative Narrate news Complexity Communications creativity Storytelling conference culture change keynote Changing organisations speaker presentations

The Merger - Some positive feedback, some course adjustments and some signposts on the road ahead

by Tony Quinlan on Jan 26, 2011 7:26:27 PM

Part of my time this year is being spent as an adviser to two organisations that are merging. It makes an interesting example of a merger process. All relevant posts on the process are collected under the Merger tag.

Topics: Culture Organisational culture Communications Engagement acquisition communication merger Changing organisations

It's not the information, it's not the overload, it's not even trying to be rational

by Tony Quinlan on Jan 24, 2011 1:03:42 PM

Interesting article from the New York Times surfaced yesterday - "In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly". It paints a picture of a difficult situation in Afghanistan where 23 Afghan civilians died as a result of a mistaken attack by US helicopters. In some ways, it reminds me o …

Topics: Complexity Cognitive science SenseMaker new york times afghanistan Changing organisations USS vincennes information overload gary klein

Rules should define the space, not fill it

by Tony Quinlan on Jan 12, 2011 5:17:00 PM

John Kay's column in the Financial Times today chimes with a quote that struck me recently:

Topics: Organisational culture Narrative Leadership Complexity Communications john kay financial times Changing organisations Cynefin

Story branding - Storytelling in Communications 2

by Tony Quinlan on Dec 1, 2010 6:49:32 PM

The second part of the series I promised on using narrative and storytelling from the slide I showed the LGComms conference earlier this year. (Part 1 was Get the Story Straight).

Topics: Organisational culture Branding Narrative Complexity Communications Employee engagement Storytelling strategy Changing organisations customer insight

It's not the Bad Apple, it's the Rotten Barrel

by Tony Quinlan on Nov 23, 2010 4:52:00 PM

The University of Prius offered up another gem as I was driving to work this week - this time from ABC's great All in the Mind podcast. For copyright reasons, the 3rd July 2010 episode was a re-run of a 2007 piece with Philip Zimbardo, titled When Good People Turn Bad. Zimbardo was th …

Topics: Culture Organisational culture Narrative Complexity Communications SenseMaker natasha mitchell ethical audit Changing organisations lucifer effect all in the mind

Get the story straight - Storytelling in Communications 1

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 26, 2010 5:00:58 PM

The opening gambit of more than one past client project has been "help us get our story straight". Sometimes it's just that - the general story - sometimes it's something specific: "help us get our customer story straight", "our story on leadership". It's an interesting starting point …

Topics: Culture Organisational culture Narrative Leadership Communications organisational storytelling organisation SenseMaker Storytelling strategy anecdote circles Changing organisations internal communications hints and tips the future backwards

Seminar workshop: Practical approaches to intractable problems

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 21, 2010 4:36:00 PM

I mentioned this on Wednesday. Details are finalised:

Topics: Organisational culture Narrative Narrate news Leadership Complexity Cognitive science Knowledge Dave Snowden SenseMaker KM Changing organisations narrative research Cognitive Edge applications

Organisational amnesia - is it safe to let go yet?

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 14, 2010 11:59:35 AM

The UK is having a bonfire today, well ahead of the usual Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. The Bonfire of the Quangos will be abolishing somewhere in the region of 180 QUasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations today in a bid to cut costs and reduce the confusion around these organ …

Topics: Organisational culture Narrative Complexity Communications placement Changing organisations organisational development organisational memory quangos

Where's the pilot?

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 12, 2010 2:53:49 PM

When did you last try something new? Or test a brilliant new insight? What have you done differently in your job recently?

Topics: Leadership Complexity MLF safe-fail pilot projects corporate culture Changing organisations minimum level of failure MandE hints and tips

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