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 …
You did that on purpose!
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 31, 2011 9:34:05 AM
I'm on the train to Gatwick Airport for an interesting conference over the next three days. The topic's going to be interesting - covering social media, behaviour change and, one of my current interests, how you work with a group who have a fixed narrative - a conspiracy theory of one …
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:
Punishment, deterrence, what about reconciliation?
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 5, 2011 10:49:45 AM
Catching up and closing down some of the tabs I opened a while ago, I came across this piece from the FT. The interesting bit is the first few paragraphs:
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).
In-depth looks at Complexity, Narrative and Children of the World
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 30, 2010 3:24:24 PM
The pilots for Children of the World have been fantastic - collecting over 7,000 stories around the world. Working on them with Cognitive Edge was fascinating, challenging and fun - the ideal project!
SenseMaker™ nominated for award
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 29, 2010 9:28:32 AM
Congratulations to Jochum and Masja for the success of their big Philips project. Gathering material around gardens - all to inform lighting decisions. A great example of the need to research around an issue, not directly at the question!
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 …
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 …