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KCUK – Building a change management strategy

Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s workshop at the KCUK conference. Various odds and sods off the back of the session: My presentation slides are here The basketball video I mentioned. The Harvard Business Review article on complexity/leadership/decision-making by Dave Snowden Dave’s in-depth article on complexity and its Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 16 years10 July 2008 ago

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What do I do?

At a closed doors conference recently, I got asked many times, “Great title. But what do you do?”The truth is that, although my title is Chief Storyteller, I’ve long since stopped working with people to tell better stories. Stories and narrative techniques are still part of the toolbox but only Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 16 years1 May 2008 ago

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Boxing up complex concepts

Narratives and story in organisations Tomorrow should see the publication of Melcrum’s Practitioner’s Guide to Employee Engagement – in which I’ve contributed the chapter on using stories and narrative. It’s been an interesting experience – having abandoned the attempt to fit a gallon into a pintpot early on, I aimed Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 16 years7 January 2008 ago

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Masterclass – Change Management in the Public Sector – 6th December 2007

Just a brief note to let you know that we’re managing to squeeze in one last masterclass in 2007. It’ll be in London on 6th December, with details available from Ark Group at the following link: Change management in the public sector – the Ark Group Powered by ScribeFire.

By Tony Quinlan, 16 years14 November 2007 ago

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Mythology, leaders and leadership

Normal blogging returns next week, now the book chapter’s done and out of the way. And, at last, the ebook on leadership is ready. This being the first, I seriously underestimated the amount of time it would take to turn my chunks of words into a nicely-designed piece of work Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years12 October 2007 ago

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Sssh

Apologies for the current silence, which is going to last at least the rest of this week. I’ve got my head down rebuilding the storytelling chapter from Melcrum’s upcoming practitioner’s guide to employee engagement. The original was on the laptop that died while I was away last week.

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years3 October 2007 ago

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Workshop references

Thanks to the participants in today’s workshop – it makes it so much more fun for me and useful for everyone when it’s interactive and relevant rather than one of my monologues. It’s always where I’m aiming, but it helps to have a great bunch of people like this one. Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years26 September 2007 ago

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Tentacular Facebook

One of the things about all the new social networking sites and systems is the apparent need to monitor a number of different potential inboxes and sources of information. RSS feeds in a newsreader, email in Outlook (I’m still in 2003, so no RSS there yet) and the various online Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years4 September 2007 ago

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All quiet

Off to Medinge in Sweden this morning. Blogging may be sporadic over the next few days as I’m not sure how much access I’ll have to the internet or, indeed, mobile phone networks.

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years22 August 2007 ago

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Medinge – the Journal launches

I’m off to the annual Medinge conference on Wednesday and very much looking forward to the presentations and discussions there – always thought-provoking and indicative of other directions to follow and think about. Sadly Jack Yan won’t be there, but after much work on his and Stanley Moss’ parts, the Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 17 years18 August 2007 ago