Knowledge Jolt with Jack

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.

Apr 23
Apr 23 People naturally see across artificial borders

Apr 18
Apr 18 What does a feed reader need today?

technology, blogs

Apr 18
Apr 18 Be conscious

Apr 17
Apr 17 QotD: George Bernard Shaw apples and ideas

Apr 16
Apr 16 Should we benchmark?

Apr 16
Apr 16 Bill Waddell Q&A from Santiago Velasquez

Apr 12
Apr 12 Forget you ... and the list you rode in on

Apr 6
Apr 6 Concentric circles of improvement

Apr 2
Apr 2 Shifting to net work

Apr 2
Apr 2 What are you improving?

continuous improvement

Mar 30
Mar 30 The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time

Mar 30
Mar 30 Survey on CCPM implementations

Mar 28
Mar 28 Sharing files isn't collaboration

technology, knowledge management

A couple of articles have me thinking and wondering why we still convert "collaboration" or "social business" into things they are not. The problem - as always - is that people are confusing the tools for the behavior. The behavior we want to see is people working together to get things done ("collaboration").

Mar 19
Mar 19 QOtD: classic KM from 1950

knowledge management

"The greatest crisis facing us is ... a crisis in the *organization* and *accessibility* of human knowledge." Robert Heinlein

Mar 18
Mar 18 We go for tools way too soon

Mar 9
Mar 9 Too Big to Know - at least by yourself

Mar 5
Mar 5 Innovation is about diverging and converging and maybe some fun

Mar 5
Mar 5 OODA and other improvement cycles apply all over

Mar 4
Mar 4 Race Against the Machine

Mar 3
Mar 3 Why would I want to know what my colleagues are having for lunch?