For all our knowledge, we have no idea what we’re talking about. We don’t understand what’s going on in our business, our market, and our world. Knowledge Management shouldn’t be about helping us to know more. It should be about helping us to understand. So, how do we understand things? It’s through stories that we understand how the world works. | David Weinberger Continue reading For All Our Knowledge, We Have No Idea What We’re Talking About David Weinberger
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Book Purchased: 10 March, 2005 The SPEED of Trust: the One Thing That Changes Everything The Talking Revolution: How Creative Conversation Can Change the World Tags: Steve Denning (4) | storytelling Continue reading The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-era Organizations Steve Denning (2000)
This book, Storytelling in Organizations, is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a Continue reading Storytelling in Organizations by Steve Denning, John Seely Brown, Katalina Groh and Larry Prusak (2004)
We are in a constant, collective journey of storytelling, sense making, and creation. Knowledge is a conversation. It is not a static “thing,” but a continual process in motion, emerging in the shared communal learning space that arises between people. Every conversation reshapes our knowledge, modifying it to fit new circumstances, expanding it with new Continue reading Sensing Our World Verna Allee
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. | Hannah Arendt Continue reading Meaning Without Definition Hannah Arendt
In the book Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People by Karl Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe, the authors present Indigenous Australian knowledge as a way of living shaped by long relationships with place, community, and time. They describe how this knowledge grows from sustained observation of the land, sensitivity to patterns, Continue reading Treading Lightly: the Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People by Karl-Erik Sveiby (2007)
In this book, A Leaders Guide to Storytelling, Steve Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States Continue reading A Leaders Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative by Steve Denning (2005)
Nurturing an innovative culture goes beyond traditional management and control methods. Many initiatives fail by trying to enforce change through rigid directives, which can backfire. Instead, culture should be seen as emergent, evolving naturally through interactions, flexibility, and supportive environments where creativity can thrive. Continue reading Nurturing an Innovation Culture Allowing emergence, not imposing change
Numerous words or phrases describe the varied forms of conversation and speech. This page lists some of the more common ones in alphabetic order. Continue reading The Language of Conversation and Speech Meanings of words describing conversation and speech
Narratives shape our understanding of the world and reinforce shared identities and values within a society. In contrast, a culture’s stories about itself and its history reveal what society finds meaningful and aims to pass on to future generations. Continue reading Stories and Narratives The subtle differences between stories and narratives
Storytelling is widely treated as a core leadership skill in organizations. When stories are used mainly to inspire or persuade, conversation can shift from inquiry to performance. Conversational Leadership keeps stories in play, but centres attention on shared reasoning and what unfolds after the story is told. Continue reading Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Placing storytelling in the practice of thinking together
Storytelling and Conversational Leadership Dominant Discourse and Narrative ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Storytelling is a powerful tool for effective communication, engagement, and influencing others across many contexts, not just business. Well-crafted stories can vividly Continue reading Storytelling ** A powerful tool for effective communication, engagement, and influence
After-action Reviews and the Habit of Thoughtful Leadership Conversations Conversation Covenant Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close An anecdote circle is a narrative technique used to guide participants in sharing stories. Shawn’s first anecdote circle | Shawn Continue reading Anecdote Circles A narrative technique to guide participants in sharing stories
Introduction The stories we tell ourselves and each other profoundly shape our realities. Within our inner lives, narratives revolving around belonging, worthiness, and potential can either fuel growth or limit possibilities. Families pass down spoken and unspoken rules prescribing roles and expectations. Community stories glorify local identity or maintain comfort over justice. Organizations … Continue reading The Power of Discourse and Narrative ** How stories shape our individual and collective realities
Knowledge Management tends to focus on the management of information in the belief that if we have more information, better quality information, and more accessible information, we will do our jobs better. This belief is just not true. We need more Continue reading We Know So Much but Understand So Little It is through conversation we make sense of the world
