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This website covers knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints, amongst other topics. Opinions expressed here are strictly those of the owner, Jack Vinson, and those of the commenters.

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Aug 29
Aug 29 Managing between the boxes

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project management

Project managers should be responsible for all the white space between well-defined activities in a project plan, says Frank Patrick. The hand-offs are where fumbles and missteps are most likely to happen.

Aug 29
Aug 29 Personal tagging at home?

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lazyweb, tags

Has anyone come up with a tagging tool for personal use? I'd love, for example, to be able to quickly retrieve all my photos with my wife in them, regardless of date or location.

Aug 25
Aug 25 Becoming your own filter

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blogs

George Siemens talks about changes in the world of media in "Centering Agents." The beauty of the new publishing paradigm is that I can choose what and when I read new information.

Aug 25
Aug 25 When to Speak and When to Be Quiet

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self, personal effectiveness

Johanna Rothman is reflecting on coaching in "When to Speak and When to Be Quiet." This is a big challenge for me: I love to provide the "answer" when a topic arises and I think I know something.

Aug 25
Aug 25 BHP Billiton record profits, thanks to communities

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community, knowledge management

Shawn Callahan at Anecdote mentions that "Chip Goodyear says $8.5B profit partly due to communities of practice efforts."

Aug 25
Aug 25 One motivation to rule them all

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personal effectiveness

Dave Pollard has derived "Nine reasons we don't do what we should do," and I suspect there is an even deeper reason: motivation.

Aug 24
Aug 24 Thunderbird Innovation Challenge is looking for judges

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innovation

The 2005 Thunderbird Innovation Challenge is looking for judges to judge MBA student projects.

Aug 24
Aug 24 Death by Caffeine

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random fun

How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? It would take 116 shots of espresso or 80 cups of drip coffee to kill me off.

Aug 23
Aug 23 Knowledge as conversation

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knowledge management

David Weinberger always has thoughtful comments on a wide range of topics. Today it is "Knowledge is the neverending conversation."

Aug 23
Aug 23 AOK: Conversation with Piero Formica

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events, knowledge management

The latest AOK Star Series with Piero Formica, starting now, highlights "Public-Private Partnerships for Knowledge Dissemination and Transfer."

Aug 23
Aug 23 HBR says Collaboration Rules

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community, theory of constraints, knowledge management

In an environment where everyone knows the goal of the system, collaboration become the way of doing business. People know what their roles are and how they support the goal. [Update: Article no longer free.]

Aug 23
Aug 23 Conversation and knowledge

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community, knowledge management

Joy London highlighted an interesting article about the value of conversation in knowledge-intensive firms.

Aug 22
Aug 22 Effectiveness and busy-ness

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personal effectiveness, theory of constraints

The tocleaders YahooGroup has had an interesting thread on a sticky problem in business: how can it be that a company with hard-working people ends up losing money?

Aug 14
Aug 14 Oblique strategies

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personal effectiveness

Dennis Kennedy pointed to something I hadn't seen before: Brian Eno (the musician, producer, and more) created a deck of cards to help unstick the creating process back in 1975, called Oblique Strategies.

Aug 14
Aug 14 Great Information Disasters

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book review, business intelligence

A partial review of "Great Information Disasters'' from 1991. The book is a collection of "Twelve prime examples of how information mismanagement led to human misery, political misfortune and business failure."

Aug 14
Aug 14 Wifi in Philly

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technology

Why not demonstrate "wifi everywhere" in a place where some of the technical infrastructure is already in place, like the airport?

Aug 11
Aug 11 Busy week

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self

I've been in TOC Application Expert training all day all week, and I mean all day.

Aug 7
Aug 7 What knowledge management isn't

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knowledge management

I was catching up on some reading on a flight and came across a KM article on "Knowledge management mechanisms of financial service sites." They have an interesting question, but the execution left me thinking that this isn't knowledge management.

Aug 3
Aug 3 Reading way too many feeds and searches

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blogs, lazyweb, technology

I think the next generation of aggregators / rss readers needs to be better at managing the situation where I have both regular and search subscriptions that bring back the same articles. Here's one idea.

Aug 3
Aug 3 Challenging Best Practices

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community, knowledge management

Dinesh Tantri talks about a new approach to best practices within in his organization where employees are encouraged to challenge best practices and work out their resolution within communities tied to those practices.

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