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A faulty knowledge transfer metaphor

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

The conduit metaphor is a common way for people to imagine how information is passed from one person to another. I have even seen a keynote speech recently where the speaker made the additional point that the receiver needs to be pointing their antenna in the right direction to pick up the signal.

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Communities of Practice

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

Discover and Adopt, Discover and Adapt, Develop and Share - the CoP mantra developed and used by the communities of practice within ExxonMobil Ask, Learn, Share - used by Shell International to provide the focus for their community of practice program.

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Knowlege Management Workshops in Australia

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

We had a great day on Monday running our Narrative Techniques for Business workshop in Canberra. The venue overlooked Lake Burley Griffin and we had a fun group of people attend from within Canberra and interstate.

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The fine art of (not) lecturing

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

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Follow That Feather

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

Yesterday morning while having coffee with a colleague, we talked about the often inappropriate use of the 'target' metaphor so often used in business, and ended up having an interesting discussion about how pigeons find their way home.

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Finding the domain for communities of practice

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

One of the key challenges in starting a community of practice is to find the right domain - the topic that people are passionate enough about and interested enough in to contribute some of their discretionary time and effort.

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Maxine McKew tells three anecdotes

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

We help leaders tell these types of stories, first by helping leaders learn how to find their stories (of course Maxine is an expert at this but we all can do it), then help them learn how to tell these stories and ensure at all times there is authenticity in what you say. 1.

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Storytelling a key factor in Rudd's win

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

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Knowledge Strategy - an emphasis on action

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

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 ' ready, aim, aim, aim ' phenomenon in 2005. Here are some of the comments/quotes I have heard recently on this theme.

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Truth and fact in stories

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 5:22 pm, Over one day old

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