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04 Jul 2008
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Management

If there is one skill that I want to develop more than everything else, it is the skill of excellent knowledge management. To be honest, I don’t even know whether I have the right term. But I know what I want:

  • I want to be excellent at accessing the best knowledge for my objectives
  • I want to be excellent at the assimilation of that knowledge
  • I want to be excellent at processing and storing that knowledge
  • I want to be excellent at re-accessing that knowledge in the future
  • I want to be excellent at sharing that knowledge

The excitement I feel about what there is left to learn is vast. The thoughts of others to tap into. How this knowledge will catalyse my thinking. How it will change me. Read more…

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23 Jun 2008

The Power of As If II

In my post on NLP and the power of using successful outcomes in business, I pulled together some thoughts on the power of acting ‘as if’ and ‘I am’. In relatively simplistic ways I considered the success to be achieved in modelling behaviours and also the impact on image to others.

What really struck me today while I’ve been preparing for a presentation on ‘The Behaviours of Managers and Leaders’ for Madgex‘s ideas and learnings programme was whether I’d missed a bit of my own point….

I wonder whether some of the power also lies in ‘the acting’ part of it. This observation comes from my realisation that my ability to learn and assimilate new information has much improved over the last few months of running nearly weekly presentations and workshops .There is the obvious explanation that if I’m not researching for a subject then I won’t be learning. Therefore in starting to swot-up on areas of interest for the presentations I’m putting more information in front of myself than I have done in the recent past.

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19 Jun 2008
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Influenced by Randomness

I’m reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s marvellous Fooled by Randomness.

A couple of initial observations:

1. I love the comment in the acknowledgements for the updated second edition: ‘human warmth: Something in our nature may help us grow ideas while dealing and socializing with other people’. It felt like an angle on my comments in my post on creativity and focus in talking.

2. I fear I am on a journey from being a ‘utopian who believe(s) in an idealized humankind….. your how-to-reach-happiness-in-twenty-steps and how-to-become-a-better-person-in-a-week book writer… thinking we (I) can control our nature at will and transform it by mere edict in order to attain, among other things, happiness and rationality’

Item 2. very much makes me observe (already) that I feel like something has shifted and that I currently feel like a different person from the one who wrote over a number of days the happiness system series of posts.

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