City at a 'pivotal' point, says strategy and marketing director Jennifer Rippe The global brand design agency LPK is contributing time, talent and heart to a major effort underway in Cincinnati to introduce Appreciative Inquiry and related proven methods of change and innovation, including design and systems thinking. The vision is to open the way to a bright and flourishing future for the city. Read More
Energy Abounds at WorldBlu LIVE
Attendees learn how to build a new and democratic model for business
SAN FRANCISCO - The energy at WorldBlu LIVE 2011 was palpable yesterday as the two-day conference convening people interested in learning about freedom at work and leaders of the most democratic workplaces kicked off. Read More
Saskatchewan Credit Unions Co-operating for Fair Trade
Prairie people value the need for co-operation among farmers: Muenster Credit Union Kris Breker says it was only a generation ago that prairie farmers were facing many of the same challenges farmers in developing countries experience today. Read More
Strengths-Based, Grassroots News Stories Work Hard
The Stories at Work column of these pages posts a story three times weekly about how news stories from across Axiom's client field are making a big difference.
Burying the R-word is ongoing dialogue, and stories commissioned by Community Living Ontario continue the work of changing language. Words create worlds.
Stories of innovation in long term care jump across organizational and provincial borders.
A resource put together by BC Centre for Ability is put to use by a family outside its catchment area as a result a short news story posted online.
Eighty-one per cent of those surveyed in a recent OMNI survey indicated that they go to the OMNIway, which shares 10 stories a week, to keep up on the organization's activities.
Such stories do their work over time and do so deeply.
As the movement towards greater ownership and creativity in work grows these stories add up to the newest news taking shape today.
These stories are incredibly democratic. Each one is the result of a one-on-one appreciative interview. Each one honours the gifts and contributions of a few people. Each one shows outcomes: Outcomes so various and rich they reach beyond standard metrics and intended goals. Read More
CEO says news program is 'an effective way of communicating'
A recent survey is showing that 81.35 per cent of OMNI Health Care managers questioned are "always" or "usually" reading the OMNIway to keep abreast of news that's happening within the organization's 17 long-term care homes. Read More
News Program Can Help Eliminate 'R' Word: Dan Tonello
Self-advocacy group president says recent stories can help curb harmful terminology
The Community Living movement wants to eliminate usage of the word "retarded" - better known within the movement as the "R" word - from the common vernacular, and Dan Tonello says the Community Living Leaders news program can play an important role in meeting this objective. Read More
ce Appreciative Inquiry and related proven methods of change and innovation, including design and systems thinking. The vision is to open the way to a bright and flourishing future for the city. 
