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Almost 7 years ago, Aiden Choles, Raymond Salzwedel and I decided to embark on a journey together that became The Narrative Lab.  Raymond has since moved on to a successful consulting career in EOH, and now the time has come for me to venture out on my own as well. I am very proud of what we've built in TNL.  In many ways, we have been pioneers.  When we started our business with an offering based mostly on Complexity thinking [...]

      We will be running a workshop on "Conversation as a strategic enabler of Innovation and Collaboration" at the 5th Annual SA Innovation Summit on Thursday the 30th of August at 14:00.  We will focus on creating an experience for the participants, as opposed to simply presenting information, so we're hoping for a fun and engaging session. The organisers have kindly offered us the opportunity to issue an invitation to our network to come and visit the Innovation Lab [...]

We do a lot of work in the area of metaphor in organisations nowadays, and I'm continually amazed by how they pervade our everyday language.  Seems we have Shakespeare to thank for many of the terms we use. (this was created by a 20 year old literary student from London.  I can't vouch for it's accuracy)

Most managers wouldn't admit to it, but I suspect that one of the reasons why team development sessions are not scheduled as often as they should be is because leaders are afraid of the 'dumping syndrome'. Dumping. That analogous phenomenon that occurs when a group of people congregate and then proceed to spew forth negativity, critique and bemoan that state of affairs in their team, company, city or country. It happens around the dinner table, in corporate passages, at the [...]