Narrative

The narrative papers

By Dave Snowden  ·  January 24, 2013  ·  Narrative

I provided a summary of some of the key book chapters I have authored, or pro-authored earlier this month along with another of the key Cynefin articles.  As promised I want to go on to other papers that addressed issues other than Cynefin.  There have been a fair number over the years, particularly in the area of knowledge management which is where all of this got started.  A lot of those are out of date as the field has moved on, but I don't think I want to deny any of the material, although I would change them if I was writing...

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Aspects of narrative work: II

By Dave Snowden  ·  January 6, 2013  ·  Narrative, Reflections

I made some progress on patterning the various approaches to narrative today, but less on the two encyclopaedia entries I have to write and the email backlog is till over 500.  But progress of any type is to be welcomed, especially as sitting in a chair form more an hour or so is agony at the moment (sciatica I am told brought on my that fall on the South West Coastal Path)  

I've made two changes to yesterdays triad.  Firstly I have changed Experience to Recording (and Communicate becomes Communicating to match}; Secondly I have...

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Aspects of narrative work: I

By Dave Snowden  ·  January 5, 2013  ·  Narrative, Reflections

As I indicated yesterday I have to write one, possibly two entries for Sage's forthcoming Encyclopedia of Action Research and I have to complete them this weekend.  The problem (and the opportunity) with Encyclopedia entries is being objective while keeping your entry to a thousand words.  Wikipedia editing is a good training for this but that word count is hard.   I've always seen an Encyclopedia as a means of starting different journeys so getting the structure of any entry is key.   Now some time ago I attempted to provide a...

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