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 …
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:
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 …
Attribution is complicated, targets are unable to see contribution
by Tony Quinlan on Oct 11, 2010 10:34:46 PM
I'm spending time this afternoon at the launch of the UK office of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). While it's a subject I'm keenly interested in, it's not one in which I've got depth of understanding. I struggle sometimes to understand some of the conversatio …
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.
300 stories about leadership, and still collecting
by Tony Quinlan on Sep 9, 2010 5:02:57 PM
One of the main planks to our client approach is that, as part of each project, we work with willing people in the client organisation to give them the skills to continue the work long after we've left. There are two reasons for doing this that matter - an attitude of not creating a d …
Information is to behaviour change as spaghetti is to a brick
by Tony Quinlan on Aug 31, 2010 10:49:17 PM
The title of this post comes from Wilbert E. Fordyce, who worked with people in chronic pain. It fascinates me that professionals who work in life and death fields understand (and get frustrated by) the fact that when people need to change their behaviour to save their lives, it's not …
The European story collecting tour
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 21, 2010 5:29:46 PM
A great day yesterday spent with the full Narrate team, David, Ron, Ruth, Meg, Anne and myself.