Melisse was one of the larger than life figures in Knowledge Management. Author of KM for Dummies, early practitioner and all round one of the best networked people in the movement. I remember the first time I met her over dinner in London during the period of the knowledge wars in IBM, and the support […]
Richard Sambrook referenced an article by David Owen based on the good Lord’s soon to be published book In Sickness and in Power. I had in parallel been thinking about leadership, partly for the book, partly for the article that Mary Boone and I have been writing for HBR. On that subject, the saga of […]
Having spent too much time today dealing with SPAM comments and trackbacks, this quote from Stephen Hawking struck a chord. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our […]
If you are planning to procure consultancy services from one of the large firms (by large I mean over 150 in staff numbers) then aside from the normal questions relating to price, quality and experience, I think there are three vital questions you should ask. You should also ask them about the workgroup whose services […]
I was preparing some slides for a presentation this morning and was re-reading a book chapter I wrote with Mark Lazaroff entitled Anticipatory Models for Counter Terrorism. Laz is a long standing colleague and friend from my work with DARPA and the man who introduced me to what has become a fascination with the American […]
My earlier blog on this excited a fair amount of comment and track backs. One of those who picked up on it, Peter Jones does not have a track back to this site (hence my link here). The other reason for posting it here, rather than as a comment to the earlier entry, is that […]
There has been an interesting debate in the Savage Minds blog on a recent American Association of Anthropologists resolution on the US use of Torture in connection with the so called War on Terror. One of the side bars to the thread has been an accusation (with I think some justification) that a post-modern interpretation […]
I see that Dilbert has picked up on Six Sigma. Or, to use my deliberate slip of the toungue (to which I confessed in a response to a recent comment): Six Stigma. Now from my perspective Six Stigma is very different from BPR other than that its execution seems more determined. As a result of […]
One of the first plays I saw at the Chester Gateway in my youth was The Crucible, the famous use of the Salem Witch trials by Arthur Miller as mechanism for an attack on McCarthyism. Readers will recognise that the title of this blog is that of a recent film directed by George Clooney. Made […]
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