About Madelyn Blair, Ph.D.
Madelyn is known for her energy and clarity of message. She is an authority in management and leadership issues, in the use of story and narrative in organizational settings, knowledge management, organizational learning, and in the critical area of overcoming information overload. She draws from over 25 years in management and executive positions, and from her extensive work with clients such as the International Monetary Fund, and Brookings Institute... Learn More
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Riding the Current
How to Deal With the Daily Deluge of DataDon’t fight the torrent of information – ride it!
Riding the Current Blog
Category Archives: Value of Conversation
White Space, Innovation, and Co-habitation – designed to work
Innovation in unexpected places and the benefits of co-habitation.
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Tagged cluster, colocation, conversation, innovation, white spaces
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Three Strategies for Learning to Hold Conflicting Thoughts with Delight
Three strategies for learning to hold conflicting ideas – with delight.
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Tagged assumptions, conflict, conversation, curiosity, leadership
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Guiding Metaphors – Believing is Seeing
Guiding metaphors – a new perspective on perspectives.
Also posted in General, Radical Learning
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Tagged conversation, learning, metaphor, observation
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The Emphasis Is on Listening
Taking every opportunity, real or virtual, to learn. Personality does count.
Sam Larson – Create the Right Environment
Create the right environment, and fresh knowledge streams in at the perfect rate.
Also posted in General, Wishes
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Tagged assumptions, conversation, environment, learning, practice partner
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Tony Burgess – Living on the Edge of New Knowledge
Tony Burgess and companycommand.com push the edges of learning.
Also posted in General, Twitter help, Working on the Internet
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Tagged conversation, Facebook, reading, social media, strategies, Twitter, writing
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Radical Learning – more about the social dimension of radical learning
Social interaction is at the heart of great learning.
Also posted in Radical Learning
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Tagged conversation, learning, radical learning, social, story
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Depth and Focus – Perfect Partners for the Expert: An interview with Richard McDermott
As Richard says, “I create a daily agenda and turn off email until it’s time. Otherwise, I will be spread too thin and will have no depth.”
The Care and Feeding of a Network – It’s All about Sharing (Interview with Caitlyn Antrim – Part 1 or 3)
Clear strategies for building and nurturing a strong network of colleagues.














