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Monthly Archives: August 2004

Knowledge is power, but sometimes what you really need is Power

18-Aug-04

At least that is what retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, PhD told the House Armed Services Committee (.pdf) at a July 15, 2004 session entitled Army Transformation: Implications for the Future. (For more info on DoD transformation, check out the Office for Force Transformation.) Some excerpts (the emphasis is mine):
I will begin by examining two [...]

The Network Effect of "Brains"

16-Aug-04

Several recent articles have focused on the ability and power of groups to come up with better solutions than any individual can.

HBS Working Knowledge: Leadership: Perplexing Problem? Borrow Some Brains
How to Save the World: More on the Wisdom of Crowds
Many to Many: Duncan Watts on Collective Intelligence
Many to Many: Captainitis (added here on [...]

On the importance of rules

11-Aug-04

After reading some of the various recent posts concerning Mind Maps® and downloading and using the trial version of MindManager, I went back to the source of my first introduction to Mind Maps®, Michael Gelb’s book How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day. I was fortunate enough to meet Michael [...]

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!. –

11-Aug-04

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the [...]

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!. –

11-Aug-04

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the [...]

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