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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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Mar 8
Mar 8 Participation in x2.0 requires literate thinking

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community, technology

Jim McGee is thinking about "enterprise 2.0" and the importance of thinking styles.

Mar 5
Mar 5 Should it be ad-hoc or well-defined?

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business, theory of constraints

Jeffrey Phillips has some interesting thoughts on what he calls The Ad hocracy in organizations that appear to prefer doing things without well-defined processes.

Mar 5
Mar 5 E-mail addiction, and 12-step program

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personal effectiveness

The Chicago Tribune had an article on e-mail addiction that focused on Marsha Egan and her 12-Step program for overcoming e-mail addiction.

Mar 3
Mar 3 Create a burning desire

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community

Mukund Mohan documents a case study that talks about what engages a community: interesting questions.

Mar 3
Mar 3 How IT Makes Johnny More Productive

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business, personal effectiveness, social network analysis

Computerworld interviews the authors of some new research on IT and productivity. Looks like some interesting though easily misinterpreted results.

Mar 2
Mar 2 Rethink the PC

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technology, personal effectiveness

Over lunch last week, Jim McGee mentioned the CIO Insight piece on Alan Kay in relation to personal effectiveness, and now he's blogged it.

Mar 2
Mar 2 Your personal social index

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community, random fun

Two funny things came across the aggregator today. The first is Mukund Mohan's tongue-in-cheek interview from the future, and the second is Valdis Krebs' find of a web gizmo that brings that future closer than I thought.

Mar 2
Mar 2 What guarantees success

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business, book review, theory of constraints

I read Bruce MacEwen fairly regularly for pieces like this one, "Do the Management Gurus Have Clothes?" I see a link to Theory of Constraints in his discussion.

Feb 28
Feb 28 Thinking about the 1% rule

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community

Phil Wainewright has some thoughts around "Solving the 1:10:100% problem" of community participation: don't worry about it and focus on the people creating useful content.

Feb 28
Feb 28 MindManager shortcuts

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technology

Kyle McFarlin has published his Top 10 Mapping Shortcut Tips (MindManager & ResultsManager), and Jason Dorko followed-up with some more of his favorites. And here are a couple of mine.

Feb 26
Feb 26 My life stream

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personal effectiveness

Emily Chang jumped into an interesting discussion of one piece of personal knowledge management with My Data Stream.

Feb 23
Feb 23 Quoted: paradox of starting work

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project management, theory of constraints

Nimmy gives us a nice quote that appears to be a German proverb, "Who begins too much accomplishes little."

Feb 22
Feb 22 Lotus advertising their view on KM

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knowledge management

Lotus (IBM) is advertising how their products will help companies do knowledge management. ... Advertising on YouTube.

Feb 22
Feb 22 KM in Business book reviewed

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book review, knowledge management

Sarah Elkins has posted her review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. The book looks like it needs to be on my list.

Feb 22
Feb 22 Chicago bloggers Meetup

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blogs, community, event report

I joined a group of about a dozen Chicago Bloggers last night at Columbia College to talk about setting up new blogs and getting business with blogs.

Feb 21
Feb 21 The essence of project planning

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project management

Hal Macomber always has interesting things to say about the world project management. In Misunderstanding Project Planning as Anticipation he is thinking about the essense of planning.

Feb 21
Feb 21 A little R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

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culture, personal effectiveness

David Anderson has a great comment on respect and courtesy. Courtesy is the baseline behavior. But without respect, it is difficult to get things done in any collaborative manner.

Feb 20
Feb 20 Doing something useful with information

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technology

Ron Friedmann saw an interesting product demo from LexisNexis, which spawned some thoughts about the next life for search technology. This sounds like what Glenn Fannick of Factiva discussed at a KM Chicago event in December 2005.

Feb 19
Feb 19 Macro measures of the effect of community

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community, social network analysis

I came across "How to measure effect of communities at the macro level?" by Mukund Mohan at the same time that I've been thinking about the reasons organizations look into communities. These ideas fit together nicely.

Feb 16
Feb 16 A best practice economic model from HBS

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knowledge management

A new HBS working paper by Deishin Lee and Eric Van den Steen, "Managing Know-How," looks at companies that keep best practices and model employee use of the best practices and company decisions about recording new practices with an economic model.

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