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Wicked Conversations! …that Drive Alignment and Innovation

Monday, 4 March 2013

Steve is the founding President of the Society for Knowledge Economics (SKE), a not for profit think tank established in 2005. The SKE encourages new and better practices in the leadership and management of human and other intangible resources that create economic and social value in knowledge based and globally connected economies. Steve has more than thirty years’ experience in the Information Technology and on line Media industry and has lived and worked in Australia, the USA and Asia.
In his presentation titled at Ci2012, he discussed how we can get better at having wicked conversations and be comfortable with being uncomfortable. According to Steve, we need to look at improving workplaces by using simple direct language which changes behaviour. There cannot be high performance without having tough conversations about purpose and priority and whether they both are aligned with each other. He ended his speech by saying we need to say no to many good ideas so we don’t end up doing too much and focus on what’s really important.
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Steve Vamos at Ci2012
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Graphic Recording Steve Vamos

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