Dave Snowden, with whom I share a general dislike (maybe distrust is a better word) for lessons learned / best practices, has a post from about a year ago on the difference between lessons learned and learning lessons. I’m revisiting these ideas after sharing my thoughts about knowledge work as craft and the growth [...]
Though I hate to say it, this explains a lot. I don’t know if I buy into it completely, but I think anyone who fits the description of “innovator” given above can probably recount more than one story like this from personal experience.
Also filed in Books, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Narrative, Re-invention, Work Literacy
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Tagged Anecdote, Early Adopters, Innovation, Innovators, Learning, Work Literacy, WorkLiteracy
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Nearly 10 years ago now, I was responsible for customer training for a new piece of equipment we had produced. (Actually, I assumed responsibility about 1/2 way through the project.) After training our first customer, I sat down with the training crew to see how we could make the next session better, as I had seen and heard some things that weren’t correct, or could be better.
Silly me.
At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the future of communications: visual communications.
Today, we are free once more. Paradoxically, now that everything has been reduced to zeros and ones, our only limit is our imagination. What’s interesting is that [...]
Also filed in Blogs, Innovation, Knowledge Work, Mastery, Tools, Video Games, toys, visual thinking
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Tagged communications, dave gray, language, literacy, Tools, visual thinking, xplane
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I learned the importance of rehearsal while in the military: Plan an operation, try it out, refine the plan. Last night I mentioned to some friends how I use rehearsal in my day-to-day life: Preparing for a presentation, walking through the steps of a plan, practicing a process. Especially when it [...]
I am just about finished reading Garry Kasparov’s 2007 book, How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves - from the Board to the Boardroom, and have been holding off on posting anything about the book until I do get to the end. But the following passage, starting on page 183, caught my eye [...]
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In his foreword to Marc Prensky’s book Digital Game-Based Learning, Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan recounts the following (emphasis is mine):
Early in my life, my mentor explained to me the three paths that lead to the creation of knowledge. The analytical path, where philosophers reflect, meditate, and make sense of objects [...]
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