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Storytelling is probably the world’s biggest industry. Radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, websites, books, pamphlets, advertising hoardings, blogs, annual reports, financial statements and invoices are some aspects of the incessant post modern chatter. Seems everyone is trying to tell a story. Your story has to stand out and be memorable among all the other stories out […]
Learning organizations have predictable problems when it comes to instilling a culture that encourages self-development and lifelong learning in a large community of learners that are continuously changing. The continuous movement of people into and from the organization makes it necessary to provide a method that Instills lifelong and necessary motivation, virtues, values and behavioural […]
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” Said Mohandas Gandhi. “Change is the end result of all true learning” said Leo Buscaglia. Everything changes. You are not the same person now as you were when you started reading this sentence. Something has changed. But what? How do we know when something […]
An archetype is a highly defined and crystalised idea that represents a particular ‘type’ (meaning ‘stamp in Greek) – it is an original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form. There may be many different archetypes in organsations […]
The Art and Science of Change explores change and transformation as complex, multifaceted phenomena that are constant and inevitable in both personal and organizational life. Change is defined as an alteration or transition, while transformation implies a more profound and fundamental shift in identity and self-worth. Effectively managing these processes requires a multidisciplinary approach, integrating […]
In common language, an event is something that happens (changes), in particular something special of limited duration. An example of this is a major sporting event, concert or political rally. An event is an outcome, result, reference or single point of focus. In physics and philosophy, an event occurs at a point in time which […]
We’ve never had a policy manual in this company. The way we share our values is to sit around a fire in the Boma* every Thursday evening after work and share stories. It is our way of seeing where we are all at, how the week has gone and what the next week coming up […]
Crisis situations – danger & opportunity, their usefulness Crisis comes in many forms – for organisations they can make or break their reputational on how they deal wth crisis How to prepare – scenario planning of the kinds of crises that could present themselves and how we’d respond to a product recall, a data breach, […]
The doings of power provide the raw material for many a conversation. But what is power really? And how is power constructed? Our world identifies certain individuals as having power and then proceeds to make them more powerful by talking about them in the media. Politicians, high profile business leaders, characters from the entertainment industry […]
by Karen Alsfine 23 January 2007 From RalBusiness Network http://www.realbusiness.co.za/Article.aspx?articleID=3884&typeID=2 ONCE upon a time. Happily ever after. Comedy or drama. Telling tales is far more than an activity just for respite, so it seems. Storytelling is the meaning of life, connecting the prosaic to the divine and constituting the most engaging way of communicating, says […]
Once there was and once there was not, a successful IT company based in Johannesburg. It was expanding quickly and had a very hands-on managing director who had grown the company from his bedroom at home to an operation that employed 80 specialist developers and programmers in plush offices in Rosebank. The MD led by […]
Leadership, who should be able to take an objective view of everything that is happening in an organisation, usually become increasingly removed from the inner story circles. And often when they hear the stories, they will have been sanitised and edited because thats what everyone wants leadership to know. By their absence from the day-to-day […]
The Isivivane is a knowledge creation and sharing model designed for organisations of all kinds and sizes. Isivivane can be used for a variety of applications including KM, Change Management, Conflict Management, Teambuilding, Innovation, Project Management, sustainable system design, branding & identity work. A key benefit of the game is that it creates shared understanding […]
I know exactly how I fell in love. There are some of us who are not very smart around technology. Our thinking tends to be more in the realm of ideas and random connections than remembering what F9 does. We get nervous and confused rather quickly and feel inadequate, especially when we’re around techno-wizards. After […]
Art of Deception looks at persuasion/propaganda techniques used in documentaries – covers stories like #kony The Disney Lemmings jumping over a cliff story, the climate change stories among others. Views: 1