These days if I am traveling to Washington I tend to either route via Chicago or fly to New York and then get the train down to The Nation’s Capital. Since the Airtrain opened at JFK, with its connection via the Long Island Railway to Penn Street this routing has become very attractive. The journey […]
A brilliant quote from Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks courtesy of Mind Hacks Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind It reminded me of two linked key points I have been making in various presentations this week. Stability […]
Just over a week ago on the ActKM forum I was asked a set of questions by Kelly Green about how you get people to share failure. This is a key area for KM; avoidance of failure is a more successful strategy in evolutionary terms than imitation of success and best practice systems (in my […]
I spent this morning teaching the use of narrative approaches to lessons learnt programmes and more generally to decision making. I was doing this within the context of a naturalistic (work with way people are) as opposed to an idealistic (this is how we think people should be) perspective on sense-making in general and knowledge […]
Some of the major posts here were Whence goeth KM, along with Weltanschauung for social computing Overall this post took several hours to write, but has given me an opportunity to pull together a lot of blogs in one cohesive group, and its done most of the work (with the HTML links) on two chapters […]
My thanks to John Caddell who found this Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure produced by the Pentagon. Before anyone gets exciting this is not a new take on Just War theory, but a set of stories of human failure, told in a whimsical style that makes them very readable. I give an example here. “But, Judge, […]
I am writing this in the lecture theatre at Almaden Institute having listened to Stuart Kauffman lecture about cells as being critical which represents the shift between chaotic and ordered regimes. It was controversial, the following speaker started off by saying that he liked the poetry but not the science which was robust to say […]
This is the first of three blogs arising from my visit to Moscow this week, for the first time since the aftermath of the events of 1989. One will represent my reflections on Moscow itself, the second will summarise my various presentations and discussion on How to get started in Knowledge Management. I am not, […]
I have the privilege this week of attending the Finance Family Forum of a major North American company. I first worked with them around this time last year at the same meeting and in the same location when I was with them for a day. A few months ago I did a whole day strategy […]
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