One of the other characteristics of any establishment is an unwillingness to accept that they may just be wrong. As I pointed out only a few minutes ago, this has been a major obstacle to scientific innovation, and to change in organisations in general. Richard Standbrook over at SacredFacts points to a Vanity Fair article […]
Language, said Mulla Nasruddin, was devised to describe actions as well as thoughts. That means that all you have to do is to get the words right, and everything will be understood.. But Mulla, said a friend, surely that cannot apply to everything? Yes, it should. Then can you describe to me how the silk […]
I was reflecting this morning on the news that Google had bought YouTube for $1.65bn. Now I remember when people had debates about which search engine they used, most people had several. Now the phrase google it is common place. Like Hoover before it, the brand name has replaced the functional description. We have industrial […]
I ran a lecture/workshop for 170 civil servants in Singapore yesterday on the general theme of complexity and networked government as a part of what is wider field of interest for me. We are at the tail end of the World Bank/IMF meeting where Singapore has done a great job of hosting a massive influx […]
Sonja Blignaut brought my attention to an article from TIME on conspiracy theory. One of the most interesting assertions is that 36% of Americans consider it ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. The article offers the explanation that humans […]
Taking a short break in the UK during my sabbatical gave me a chance to pick up post. I don’t know about other people who travel, but I actually find the process of not receiving physical mail and living in a self contained unit of what I can pack in one bag strangely liberating. Picking […]
Patrick Lamb’s article on the certification wars continues to attract some comments and reminded me of a side panel that went on at the time relating to standards, ISO etc. etc. Basically there were three attempts that I know of none of which have actually set a standard, two of which were useful. In the […]
Patrick Lambe over at Straits Knowledge has finally published his excellent article whose title I have stolen for this blog entry. It illustrates all that is wrong about certification in an emergent field.
The hoary old question of definitions raised itself on one of the KM list serves this week. The argument was put forward to the effect that the KM profession should get its act together and produce a definition of KM. This stuff normally comes from people trying to sell certification courses in the field. They […]
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