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Attention: Your Expertise is About to Expire (FREE pdf)
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In the old days, people hoarded knowledge as a hedge against colleague competition or obsolescence. But the shelf life of knowledge and expertise is short-lived in the fast-paced environment of the 21st century. Be careful not to let yourself go beyond your expiration date. Here’s what a consulta...
Knowledge Management Six Pack #4 (FREE pdf)
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Company: Not managing but enabling knowledge. / This is the fourth in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise. / Before cultural change in a knowledge-based organization can occur on the shop floor, the right corporat...
Ordinary Smart People Will Change the Organization, Part ...
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So here we are in 2009, and the principal information flows in most organizations are still exactly what they were in 1975
Sugar rush at the Knowledge Café (FREE pdf)
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How conversation is bringing KM back to the people. / David Gurteen’s Knowledge Café, hosted by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury at its headquarters in Bournville, England, brought together people to discuss the role of conversation in business. / What brought me to the UK’s most famous chocolate...
Obama, fix the US education gap (FREE pdf)
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Fortune 1000 Executives: New president must fix the U.S. education gap. / More than half give pre-college system a failing grade and are experiencing a shortage in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) talent. Two-thirds are concerned other countries’ increased access to STEM ...
Cash isn't enough (FREE pdf)
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Rewards boost productivity, profitability, morale. / When surveyed, employees consistently will ask for cash, but research shows that it is the least effective form of recognition. How come?
Curiosity Killed the Cat (FREE pdf)
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Inquisitiveness can lead to dangerous situations. / What’s behind a phrase? More importantly, what’s ahead of the phrase? In today’s Knowledge Economy, people are encouraged to be inquisitive. But ingrained into the people culture is the old adage ‘Curiosity killed the cat’. This story and the ...
Obama, fix the US education gap (FREE pdf)
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Fortune 1000 Executives: New president must fix the U.S. education gap. / More than half give pre-college system a failing grade and are experiencing a shortage in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) talent. Two-thirds are concerned other countries’ increased access to STEM ...
From Chump to Champ - Four steps to coaching a personal q...
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As a manager or supervisor, you are in the unique position to influence people who report to you. / Unfortunately, most managers choose to influence their people by telling them things, rather than asking good questions, then giving great affirmations. / The trick is knowing what to ask and wha...
KM Six Pack #2 KM helps people, companies attain critical...
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This is the second in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise.
Wide variation in educational quality in U.S. (FREE pdf)
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The U.S. approach to education is a command-and-control style, using standardized tests that become the object of the educational process. This study provides more evidence that it isn’t working.
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scribbled: Great paper, and your description is completely TRUE. Children WANT to learn and crave it, but what they are given is NOT what they crave. They are unique and would develop their own interests, l...
MisterFrost
scribbled: I could go on and on about how my children, specifically my youngest, is pretty much self-taught via her inquisitive nature. She has her computer and learning games; she knows her numbers and can ...
MisterFrost
scribbled: I could go on and on about how my children, specifically my youngest, is pretty much self-taught via her inquisitive nature. She has her computer and learning games; she knows her numbers and can ...
KM Six Pack #1: Brainwork is a fact of life for the 21st ...
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This is the first in a series of six articles introducing newly engaged employees and managers to the basics of knowledge-based enterprise.
Smart Innovators. You know the game has changed. (FREE PD...
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After 20 years of deep research and on-the-ground leadership, Smart People Magazine has asked me to explain our work in plain language. And I have to do it in two pages (give me three, please!). / The focus of our research has been on helping organizations realize the changes taking place in the...
Decentralizing Stewardship. Minister’s decision a lesson ...
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There is no better way to understand how the rules can change, how people can become engaged in making better decisions, and how surprise and discovery can ignite communities than to follow the collection plate of a community church where the pastor chooses to think differently. / Follow the mon...
Human-Computer Interaction. Forum examines the impact of ...
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Today’s children are coming of age immersed in video gaming, Web browsing and instant messaging. / Many have cell phones, laptops and hand-held video games. Others have created avatars of themselves, and some are raising robot pets in virtual worlds. / What impact does this technology have on c...
Extrasensory Projection (free PDF version)
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Student uses brain-computer interface system to Tweet. / In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter – just by thinking about it. / Just 23 characters long, his message, “using EEG to send tweet,” demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which “...
Power of Story (free PDF version)
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Sense making comes from son’s Persian Gulf experience. / By John and JoAnn Girard. / For several years, we have had the great pleasure of speaking to groups of organizational leaders about knowledge management. / Specifically, we speak about how leaders may reap the benefits of creating and sh...
The Learning Factory (free PDF version)
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K-12 classrooms irrelevant to today’s environment. / By David Warlick. / There is a commonly told story, usually attributed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seymour Papert. It states that if a doctor from the 1890s were to suddenly be time-warped into a modern twenty-first century hos...
Smart People magazine 1/2009
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Smart People Magazine, 1 (1), 2009 / www.smartpeoplemagazine.com / Contents: 3 About Smart People: Following the eight norms of our readers 4 ‘Me Smart?’ You are - what you think 7 Where’s the bus? 8 Slumdog Millionaire 9 Be a survivor 10 Watch your language 11 Apron strings keep women 13 Filling...
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Smart People magazine 1/2009
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Smart People Magazine, 1 (1), 2009 / www.smartpeoplemagazine.com / Contents: 3 About Smart People: Following the eight norms of our readers 4 ‘Me Smart?’ You are - what you think 7 Where’s the bus? 8 Slumdog Millionaire 9 Be a survivor 10 Watch your language 11 Apron strings keep women 13 Filling...
contato.marcelo13716
scribbled: Very interesting.
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