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Telling stories at work

By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2017 Why tell stories at work? I first heard about the power of using stories at work, in the context of sharing knowledge and building learning and understanding, in the 1990s. David Snowden, who was then a Director at the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management, was a chief exponent of …

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Fake work – a real opportunity to enhance team effectiveness

‘Fake Work’, by Brent Peterson and Gaylan Nielson is an excellent dissertation on a common cause of frustration and wasted time and effort at work.  According to the authors’ research, 53% of workers believe that they do work that does not count, and 54% feel that their creativity, talent and intelligence is under-used.  Unfortunately fake …

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