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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 14
Mar 14 Actually, that looks good

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culture, innovation, theory of constraints

Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.

Mar 14
Mar 14 Current podcast selections

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self

This list of podcasts didn't seem to fit into the My Media Sources meme, so I provide a commented list here, along with the OPML file.

Mar 14
Mar 14 My Media Sources

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self

Nimmy pegged me, and since I need to do some procrastinating, here we go. The idea is to tell you about what media sources I use.

Mar 14
Mar 14 Mind mapping software survey results published

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technology

Chuck Frey has released the results of his recent mind mapping software survey. This survey was about how mapping software is used and the functionality that people find most helpful at a high level.

Mar 13
Mar 13 Do blogs fit in the enterprise?

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blogs, knowledge management

APQC's knowledge management blogger, Jim Lee, doesn't think so. I think he's looking at things the wrong way.

Mar 13
Mar 13 How important is face time

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community, culture

Chicago Tribune business columnist, Barbara Rose, had a piece on the importance of "face time" yesterday.

Mar 13
Mar 13 Cool tools: OnePipe

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technology

OnePipe gives you a quick way to create a sub-feed from an existing feed based on your query.

Mar 12
Mar 12 Learning to forget

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knowledge management

Brett Miller has some interesting thoughts about memory and anti-memory. Maybe we need to learn how to forget.

Mar 12
Mar 12 Librarians in KM

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knowledge management

Mohamed Taher turned up a research paper that delves into the "Role of Information Professionals in Knowledge Management Programs."

Mar 12
Mar 12 The pernicious thinking behind multi-tasking

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project management

David Laffineuse provides a great quote on the mindset of resource managers in multi-project environments.

Mar 12
Mar 12 How to determine that I'm unwell

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self, random fun

How to tell if Jack is really sick.

Mar 8
Mar 8 No such thing as a "KM System"

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knowledge management

James Robertson usually has interesting things to say around knowledge management. This time he clearly states that There are no "KM Systems" in his latest CM Briefing Excellent.

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.

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