Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category
Individual intelligence can lead to collective stupidity
I am reviewing Fred Kofman’s book ‘Conscious Business’ subtitled ‘How to build value through values. He uses a soccer game to illustrate ‘a puzzling paradox’ …
Read MoreWhat’s real work at your work?
Last week I ran a half day workshop to get a group thinking about their knowledge strategy. We got into a conversation about what things …
Read MoreAvoiding reinventing the wheel
When we help organisations develop their knowledge strategies we encourage them to focus their efforts on a few areas. We have listed some of the …
Read MoreLeaders need to listen
Deborah May provided the following account in her recent newsletter. Most leaders want to engage their team in planning processes but don’t always do so …
Read MoreThe difference between knowledge and information
“Not that old chestnut” I hear you cry. We have written a whitepaper on this subject and blogged on it a few times. It keeps …
Read More2020 Summit
Andrew Leigh went to the 2020 summit warm up yesterday in Canberra. It was the ACT 2020 summit and the lesson he will be taking …
Read MoreKM Australia is coming
This year I will be speaking at KM Australia in two capacities: running a workshop on knowledge strategy, and speaking with Greg Marsh from BAE …
Read MoreStrategy and the Fat Smoker
I’ll remember Strategy and the Fat Smoker (SATFS) by David Maister for two things: helping me realise that creating a resolve in a group to …
Read MoreFollow That Feather
A strange recurring pattern involving pigeons seems to have emerged in my life recently. A pigeon walked into my house the other day after I …
Read MoreKnowledge Strategy – an emphasis on action
We have long advocated the importance of action over analysis in both our knowledge strategy and community of practice work and I blogged about the …
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