Washington DC - courses coming up in September 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 12, 2014 10:38:06 AM
Early bird discount's finished, but there's still time to book on the upcoming Washington DC Cognitive Edge courses - which would be highly recommended even if I weren't teaching with Michael Cheveldave. (I won't be there for the Narrative day on 2nd October, though - I'll have gone t …
Business approaches for "complex" problems
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 31, 2011 11:39:00 AM
With Andrew Moore at DAV Management, I've written a piece recently: "New approaches to 'big' problems". Edited with copy of the article, as it's no longer available from DAV Management.
The joy of "No"
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 3, 2011 10:44:00 AM
I ran an innovation session recently for a client's senior management team that featured an exercise that a lot of people shy away from. There is a great tendency for lots of people to stress positivity - building on ideas, reducing criticism, etc. I can understand that - but it's als …
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:
Practicalities and applications - SenseMaker in application
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 12, 2010 2:06:13 PM
Two great sessions last week at the QEII Conference Centre with Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge. The shift from theory to practical application of new management techniques based on principles of complexity, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology and others has been remarkably swift in r …
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 …
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:
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?
The Merger - Baby steps
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 6, 2010 2:22:10 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.
The missing Leadership link
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 14, 2010 7:04:41 PM
Sometimes it feels like an article pursues you around until you pay attention. (The truth, of course, is far more mundane - just that it is a piece that resonates among the various media sources I go to.) The latest examples is an article in The American Scholar, originally from an ad …