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Laura Humphrey reports in from San Francisco.

Jane Bailey Bain, author and coach, shares her ‘aha’ moment of organizational storytelling.

We recently convened a breakfast event around Sean Lusk and Nick Birk’s book Rethinking Public Strategy (Palgrave, 2014). The enquiry we invited participants to think about focused on the balance...

Reflections on strategy and story prompted by a breakfast event to consider Sean Lusk and Nick Birk’s book Rethinking Public Strategy.

Sparknow has a longstanding interest in the effects of presence, listening and the witness effect. We’ve offered to put this to work with Tricia Sibbons, the departing director of the Trevor...

Join us in helping Tricia Sibbons shape an oral history project in Johannesburg. Let’s get the synapses of the extraordinary networked Sparknow brain firing and see what we can do together.

How communications can increase or reduce people’s resistance to change.

The challenger sale model and how to use storytelling techniques to strengthen it.

An episode of This American Life gives a great illustration of where the moment of learning gets lost. Here’s a short note about our take.

An extract from an essay by Victoria Ward and Andrew Curry about the use of the postcard as a device to enable dialogue in groups that allows participants to connect together past, present and futures, to build new stories about the future, and to put themselves in the picture.

#postcards

We run an occasional series of ‘aha’ moments about story. Here's one from Madelyn Blair to start off 2015.

#madelyn blair #aha

Victoria and Shawn Callahan have read and reviewed Dick and Emily Axelrod's 'We must stop meeting like this' using the 'essay in two voices' technique. Here's the review.

Jay Geneske’s post “Making time for story” (recommended by Michael Margolis) prompts Alicia to think about time pressures and what we are giving up in the face of constantly squeezed working...

#listening

On the vital role of plural points of view and the role of story in shifting the diversity agenda.

Aspects of the Melcrum Summit through our lens of change and narrative research.

Thoughts on creating a corporate culture that is both open and fair.

Networked leadership, volunteerland, nodal governance, operating a network without headquarters. Some old and new insights come together in some of the work we've been doing, and the conversations we've been having, in the last 10 days. Here are some fieldnotes.

How do you anchor organisational restructuring in times of permanent reorganisation? A colleague has shared the proceedings of a German conference. It’s quite a dense read so we've sifted out a few useful insights here in particular those about what happens 'inside' and 'outside' the change.

What we noticed over the summer in the books we read, the exhibitions we visited and the plays and films we saw.

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