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Exploring why and how we do what we do, and how we can do it better

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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02 Jul 2008
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Ideas and Learning Projects

I keep on referring to the Ideas and Learning Projects that we run at Madgex. I then tend to link off to the Achievement in Mind blog where I posted some details. Here is the content:

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Posted in Business, Creativity, Knowledge Management, Learning
01 Jul 2008

Goal Setting makes things less Scary

I’ve just come back from our six-monthly strategy away days with the Madgex shareholders. Now these are always good events. We get through a lot of stuff very productively.

This session was particularly productive because since we have tightened the focus of our mission to be the global leaders in job board software and services, our ‘flamenco dancing’ of innovation and creativity has significantly step-changed for the better.

Over the last two days we agreed a set of targets for the five years from 1.2.9. We’re into our fourth year of targets set four years ago which we’ve achieved in each of the years. Now this next set of targets should have ‘filled us with the fear’. We’re talking triple-digit millions. Yet it didn’t.

The reason why I think that it didn’t is that we’ve taken the time to plan the scenarios and imagine what it would be like. We’ve done the sales capacity modelling. We’ve got a big A3 map full of our ideas. We’ve allocated responsibilities and modelled in our heads what it will feel like when we’ve got there.

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