I wanted to share a great quote from Gabriele Lakomski’s scholarly but very readable Managing without Leadership that picks up on the general question of nauralising as opposed to normative approaches of which more some time this week. The book is priced at £62 on Amazon which is pity as at a more normal price […]
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 […]
Thanks (sort of) to the Wikipedia for the list of “what happened on this day” – depressing really 79 Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae with volcanic ash 410 The Visgoths under Alaric sacked Rome 1572 St Bartholemew’s Day Massacre: a massacre of Huguenots began. An estimated 70,000 people were […]
As some of you know I have a long term stationery fetish. When I was young I used to spend my pocket money on different types of notebooks which were used for a week and then abandoned. I am currently resisting the temptation to buy a wonderful B5 filing system from the Japanese bookshop in […]
I’m writing in this in the middle of an narrative project in Toronto Canada. We are looking at health and life style issues relating to the use of drugs. There are some interesting paradoxes here. To take one example : I freely decide to purchase and take vitamins and yet I resent taking the medicines […]
Even in a recently created bureaucracy cultural differences can emerge. Over the last year or so since the US Government decided that we all had to be finger printed and photographed I have observed an interesting pattern. Entering the US on the West Coast they insist you take your glasses off before they take the […]
I have always argued that there is more to human communication than aural and visual stimulation and that as a result while things like video and web conferencing are cool and useful its just not the same as being there. Well I am now well and truly hoist on my own petard [Hamlet III.iv.207] as […]
Goodhart a British economist is widely held to have formulated the equivalent of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principal for economics. It states as follows Any statistical relationship will break down when used for policy purposes A simpler formulation from a US academic translates this as: If a measure becomes a target, then it ceases to be a […]
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