George Siemens makes an interesting comment in Wikis at Work. "The baggage of existing thinking is a great inhibitor to blogs, podcasts, wikis, and social bookmarks."
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George Siemens makes an interesting comment in Wikis at Work. "The baggage of existing thinking is a great inhibitor to blogs, podcasts, wikis, and social bookmarks."
Bruce Hoppe writes What P G Teaches and talks about how A.G. Lafley, the CEO of Proctor Gamble, operates his ship. He talks about collaboration - collaboration where people challenge one another on the validity of their ideas and plans.
Nancy White links to an interesting comment about how managing your personal online reputation will be a core life skill. Imagine, teaching this alongside basic hygiene in our schools.
The British Psychological Society has a blog, kept by Dr. Christian Jarrett. A friend mentioned the recent "Why do we still believe in group brainstorming?" that describes the "illusion of group productivity."
Okay, I can't help but link to this one. He references _The Princess Bride_ for goodness sake! David Buchan tells us that "You can do more than you believe."
Malcolm Ryder has a recent piece that looks at Change that provides some steps to consider on the way to creating change within the organization. As I read his article, I saw some parallels to the Theory of Constraints' five focusing steps.
Oren Harari responds to an Economist article with "Knowledge Workers (That's Us!) Need a New Organization." Oren is particularly interested in the juxtaposition between what knowledge workers need and how companies approach it.
Erik Hollnagel does Cognitive Systems Engineering research in the area of human performance and accident analysis / prevention. He has a brief write-up on The principle of Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (ETTO) that I found interesting. The bottom line: it is the system that has to be diagnosed to understand why an efficient "short cut" failed when it normally worked just fine.
The McKinsey Quarterly has Ten trends to watch in 2006 by Ian Davis and Elizabeth Stephenson, which are really trends to watch over the next decade. Several of these ring for me.
Dennis Reyes at ITtoolbox's writes "That Won't Work Here...It's too Transparent!" which suggests change management needs to be a critical aspect of business changes.
Mattias Melcher at x28's blog points to an academic piece by L. Thoms & M. Thelwall, "Academic home pages: Reconstruction of the self" at First Monday. The main finding of the research seemed far too obvious for me. I don't think academic websites are supposed to be terribly interesting either.
CIO Magazine published an excerpt from Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer by Michael A. Roberto. I like the author's focus on thinking about how to make decisions, rather than which decision to make.
Jim Spillane gave a talk on "School Reform American Style: The (Missed) Management of Instruction," which focused on K-12 education and the design of the organization that provides education. I heard some interesting things about organizational design that extends beyond schoolrooms.
Nancy White asked for clarification of my comments about shared context in some types of online communities.
A piece from the ASU WP Carey School of Business states that to "'Know Thyself' is the First Step to Successful Knowledge Management." I particularly like their effort at defining characteristics of organizations which are more likely to succeed in knowledge management.
Ed Vielmetti writes that shared context is important and that it is getting lost, particularly for people who are all-virtual-all-the-time. Shared context is important because of the sense of trust it creates, which enables work.
Bruce Hoppe finds an interesting set of discussions that suggest "conflict is good" in his "Conflict: something we can all agree on." I wonder if there is a connection with constraints in TOC.
"They Just Don't Get It! (Changing resistance into understanding)" by Leslie Yerkes and Randy Martin is a quick and entertaining read. It is written as a how-to manual, not unlike the top-seller "Who Moved My Cheese?"
"Why making the decisions the right way is more important than making the right decisions" is an interesting piece from the Ivey Business Journal.
Dave Pollard has another in depth tome in yesterday's "The Psychology of Information, or Why We Don't Share Stuff." I like that he acknowledges the importance of the underlying human behaviors in this dilemma.