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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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Dec 8
Dec 8 Global MAKE winners for 2009

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knowledge management

Teleos and Rory Chase have announced their 2009 Global MAKE winners. Congratulations to all the organizations. There are many familiar names in the list from years past.

Dec 7
Dec 7 Twelve months of 2009 with Knowledge Jolt

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self

It's time for another all-about-me meme. I don't think I've posted one here in a long time, as most of them have moved over to Facebook and Twitter. (Thankfully, for the most part.)

Dec 7
Dec 7 Arsenault's 8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration

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community, knowledge management

Dale Arsenault gives us a straightforward description of collaboration in "8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration."

Dec 3
Dec 3 Hooking into the zeitgeist - that's knowledge management

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blogs, self, knowledge management

Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.

Nov 24
Nov 24 Too much on the plate

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personal effectiveness, project management, theory of constraints

How Smart Leaders Talk About Time is a "Conversation Starter" from HarvardBusiness.org in October. It talks about the the struggle so many businesses have of having too many things to do and prioritizing amongst them. What is a leader to do?

Nov 22
Nov 22 Is there a next stage to KM 1.0, 2.0, ...

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knowledge management

Atle Iversen has a series of posts on what he is calling Knowledge Management 3.0. I agree with everything he says, other than that he's created a new designation to call this 3.0.

Nov 16
Nov 16 Rules of business events

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business, events

Matt Homann posted a list of Ten Rules of Law Firm Retreats, but I think these are equally applicable to just about any time you take people off to discuss how things are going in the business or how to improve the business.

Nov 11
Nov 11 Do you fear like I do

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culture

Charles Green has a great piece on collaboration and why we don't. He suggests it's all down to fear. I wonder if we know less about collaboration than we think.

Nov 10
Nov 10 Best practice - or good examples

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business, culture

Mark Gould has a discussion of "best practice" that reminds me just how important it is to have a regular policy of looking for other examples of how something has been done before doing it myself.

Nov 9
Nov 9 Mathemagenic as a thesis, still familiar

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blogs, book review, knowledge management

I have been reading Lilia Efimova's PhD thesis, and the second half is as good as the first. And just as familiar for long-time readers of her blog.

Nov 5
Nov 5 Tech Tip: How to show calendar day duration in MS Project

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technology, project management

How in the world do you get MS Project to show you the calendar-day duration of a task when the "working calendar" of the project is a 5-day work week (or a two-shift, 5-day week; or a three-shift, 7-day week)?

Nov 5
Nov 5 Too many good ideas, not enough resources

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project management

There are always more good ideas than we have resources to execute those ideas. Dennis Stevens has a look at this from the Agile perspective that inspires my thoughts here.

Nov 4
Nov 4 Do something with your ducks, the row is boring

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personal effectiveness, random fun

It's hard to be actively involved in the online world and thinking about how it affects your life and those around you and not know about Seth Godin. Here is an interview with him that makes some connection to how people should operate their lives in today's world.

Oct 26
Oct 26 Culture makes the collaboration, not technology

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culture, knowledge management

A friend on Google Reader shared this Web Worker Daily article, "Corporate Culture, Not Technology, Drives Online Collaboration" by Will Kelly. I completely agree with the sentiment, but some of the specific examples worried me.

Oct 21
Oct 21 When is multitasking not multitasking

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personal effectiveness

Is juggling several tennis balls while telling a joke multitasking? Not according to an interesting discussion from Stowe Boyd.

Oct 19
Oct 19 Why blogs and Twitter matter to this person

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blogs

A podcast of a breakthrough moment on the value of blogging and Web 2.0 for the president of a business.

Oct 17
Oct 17 Another look at categorizing KM: PKM

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personal effectiveness, knowledge management

Patti Anklam covers about five years worth of research and writing in her extensive summary.

Oct 16
Oct 16 Some criticism of TOC

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business, project management, theory of constraints

In case you think I am a dyed-in-the-wool Theory of Constraints promoter, I point to this article by Dan Trietsch from a 2005 issue of Project Management Journal.

Oct 15
Oct 15 Behaviors are contagious

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business, project management

Phillip G. Armour discusses is the nature of people in groups. There are people (often leaders of some sort) whose behavior sets the tone for the whole group.

Oct 13
Oct 13 Mathemagenic as a thesis, very familiar

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blogs, book review, knowledge management

I have been reading Lilia Efimova's PhD thesis, Passion at Work: Blogging Practices of Knowledge Workers, and the words feel very familiar.

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