Archive for 'Change in the workplace' Category

Can you speak with conviction?

Posted by Andrew 28 June 2010

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

 

Call for proposals close for the Celebrating Story Conference

Posted by Andrew 10 March 2010

With 40 proposals in, we have had a great response with our call for proposals for the next “Celebrating Story” conference scheduled for October 7th and 8th. The figure below illustrates the distribution of the proposals based on the different themes which we were inviting contributions around. Now it’s over to our conference review team!

 

 

The end of Homo Economicus – The beginning of Homo Narrans ?

Posted by Andrew 21 July 2009

In this months edition of the Harvard Business Review there appears an interesting article titled “The End of Rational Economics”.
The idea in brief of this article is (to quote HBR):
“The global economic crisis has shattered two articles of faith in standard economic theory: that human beings usually make rational decisions and that the market’s invisible [...]

 

Strive for Simplicity

Posted by Andrew 15 January 2008

An easy quick google brings the following quotes about simplicity:

“Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.” — Koichi Kawana, architect of botanical gardens“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)“Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.” — Alan Kay“You can always recognize [...]

 

Getting used to the “change” story

Posted by Andrew 14 August 2007

 OK. So. You have a great idea. An idea for change in your workplace. This change is something which you see enormous value for. But before you know it, you meet that dreaded “R” word. Resistance. What do you do?