Seth Kahan

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article published in Knowledge Management, October 2001 Storytelling has existed for centuries as a way of sharing knowledge and developing a sense of community. Here, Seth Weaver Kahan details his […]

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article reprinted as published in the Spring 2006 Journal for Quality & Participation. In 1996, five people in a large, multinational organization of 15,000 had a radical idea for refocusing

Secure environments represent significant challenges for building knowledge capacity. For example, experience, know-how, and intelligence can be problematic to identify and integrate across intentionally segregated intelligence units. Based on my experience teaching and developing knowledge capacity in a wide variety of organizations, including some which include secure environments, I have developed four strategies, each of

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. A COMMUNITY OF CONTRIBUTION is a group of people who join together for a common cause, exchanging time and resources for a future they believe in. They expect personal benefit

Many people see large-scale change as the execution of a well-formed idea – a clear set of objectives that are carried out through a project. However, change is not that easy. A project plan is required, but that is only the road map and the map is not the territory. To drive change successfully you

The process of world construction is taking place wherever people are in communication…* Expanding business internationally is a challenging, multi-dimensional adventure. In addition to the business activity itself, there is the underlying need to communicate with people who see the world fundamentally differently, to build a robust sense of common understanding, and negotiate a mutually

The human spirit is largely untapped in organizational life today. This is the same human spirit credited with moving mountains, succeeding against the odds, and accomplishing the impossible. Spirit is not captured and channeled with carrots or sticks. Command and control will not suffice to evoke the best in people. When people believe they can

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Case Study by Seth Kahan Written for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs Download this case study Download the entire report, Managing Knowledge to Improve

It is 2007 and I am sitting in a tiny conference room in a large, multi-national organization in Europe, packed tight with eight people. A revolutionary idea for business improvement is being presented, and everyone is eager, having dropped their day’s work to join this impromptu session. If the company can implement fast enough, this

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article by Seth Kahan and Madelyn Blair, PhD. ©2003 Seth Kahan and Madelyn Blair, PhD. Reprint with attribution allowed. In the year 2000 the World Bank had been practicing Knowledge