I bumped into the transcript of a speech given by Clay Shirky last year called "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy". Don't ask me how, I honestly don't remember how I got there. This is a great text on...
On Missboulette, this quote from Steinbeck in "East of Eden": "Our species is the only creatice species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There...
George's report "Blogging the Market" is a very interesting read, even though I sometimes think its going a bit to far in its manifesto-like tone. I agree with the fundamentals, but I think the actual change in corporate governance and...
Last thursday was a milestone for our CoP-1 community. For the first time, our monthly meeting meeting was not organized around one KM project of one of the members, but around a common presentation of three of them. Topic was...
Following Seb's recommendation, I read "We Media" over the week-end (download report there) Though this report is by and large about the media industry and written for journalists, there are a few things that all business people should be looking...
I love this cartoon from Celemi corp. in Sweden. I often have this sort of feeling in my company when I am asked to justify knowledge management or e-learning projects by cost savings....
On ManyWorlds I downloaded Perfect Information and Perverse Incentives: Costs and Consequences of Transformation and Transparency from Michael Schrage It is a truly brilliant paper, which argues, based on documented evidence both in the military and in finance that "the...
Why Can't We Get Anything Done?: "Companies often confuse talking with doing. They think that talking about doing something is the same thing as doing it! That planning is the same as doing. That giving presentations is the same as...
On April 18. 2003, at 4:00 PM, our little daughter Rose, aged 2, fell into a pond and drowned. This sudden death left us heartbroken, and it changed my life. I think I now understand a little more what...