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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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Jul 23
Jul 23 I am Catch-22

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self, random fun

23 Skidoo, I am Catch-22. At least this five-question survey suggests that I am.

Jul 23
Jul 23 Knowledge management - it could be worse

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knowledge management

Victoria Ward has an interesting piece on translating poetry that I think has a lot to do with the difficulties of knowledge management.

Jul 23
Jul 23 Mind mapping search

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technology

Vic of the mind-mapping blog has built a mind-mapping specific search with the Google Co-Op tools.

Jul 21
Jul 21 Concrete solidifies definitions

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community, knowledge management

Luis Suarez has a great story about knowledge management from someone who has nothing to do with knowledge management in Knowledge Management - Where Are the Bees?

Jul 21
Jul 21 Managing distribution according to TOC principles

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theory of constraints

Ever been annoyed that your local store always seems to be out of one of the ten items on your list? Me too. Amir Schragenheim has written a piece on Managing Distribution According to TOC Principles (pdf) in the latest TOC Update from Goldratt Marketing.

Jul 19
Jul 19 How to Spot a Failing Project

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project management, theory of constraints

Rick Cook at CIO.com has a piece on How to Spot a Failing Project. I can't help but comment on the article after yesterday's post.

Jul 18
Jul 18 Why is my project late

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project management

Back in May, Stephen Seay had a bunch of reasons for Why Is My Project Late? at his Project Steps blog. The list included the usual suspects, but what about the management sources?

Jul 16
Jul 16 What do you call your knowledge program

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knowledge management

David Gurteen has published an interesting letter from Bob Buckman of Buckman Labs in response to discussions of knowledge sharing by James Robertson. Robertson doesn't like the term "knowledge sharing." Buckman doesn't like "knowledge management."

Jul 14
Jul 14 Parellel quotations on knowledge

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knowledge management

Compare these quotes. In reading this Ancient Chinese Proverb thanks to Lauchlan Mackinnon, I could help think of Dave Snowden's take on sharing knowledge.

Jul 13
Jul 13 Blogging against presumptuous computing

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lazyweb, technology

Dennis Kennedy has a discussion / rant on the trend of every software application to decide that it needs to automatically update itself and screw up your machine.

Jul 11
Jul 11 Lowering the water level

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Jul 11
Jul 11 KM deadly sins revisited

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Jul 11
Jul 11 The latest thinking in corporate blogging

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Jul 11
Jul 11 Meetings and parties on social network services

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Jul 10
Jul 10 Co-creation is not an option

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Jul 10
Jul 10 The state of knowledge management from Helen Day

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Jul 9
Jul 9 Knowledge needs to be personal

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Jul 5
Jul 5 Blogging in the public sector report

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Jul 3
Jul 3 More guidelines to improve your information literacy

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Jul 2
Jul 2 Policies can be changed

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