Knowledge Jolt with Jack

One of my masters students happened to dredge up a quote from Herbert Simon that nails the problem of information overload. The focus of the quote is on attention, but that is the problem of information overload.

A couple tools lists turned up recently that might be of interest. One is the I&DeA publication of "KM library: tools, techniques and case studies." And the other is Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell's "The Lawyer's Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies."

A new-to-me blog by Matt Cornell takes a new look at one of my favorite topics, "How do you measure personal productivity?"

I took We All Fall Down with me on a business trip and found I couldn't put it down, once I had started it. That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me.

How could you possibly remember events that specifically, unless that happens to be the day you got married or some other key event in your life.

Dan at Newly Corporate has a recent pair of articles on expertise in the business world that I found interesting. These are "5 Ways to Establish Yourself as an Expert" and "The Curse of Knowledge."

Here's another take in the long line of "lots of email" discussions. This time it is "Are You Really Being Paid to Read 200 Emails a Day?" by John Care of Mastering Technical Sales.

There is an interesting pair of articles that focus on collaboration in the April 2008 Communications of the ACM. And one of them leads to even more interesting stuff.

The Silicon Valley Product Group (Marty Cagan, I assume) asks about Eating Dog Food?. As in "we eat our own dog food."

The Productivity Show episode #39 with Doug Fisher covers my favorite topic of personal effectiveness AND makes the connection to team effectiveness.

Carol Kinsey Goman has "The Seven-Second Advantage" in the April 2008 AMA Moving Ahead Newsletter that talks about first impressions and how to improve them.

I've come across the "Leading with Insight" slides from Matthew Milan that touches on some interesting ideas on insight.