Here’s another piece from the archives, this one from April 2004. I’ve pulled this one out as part of a response to a discussion between Bill Brantley and Harold Jarche on the question of the work literacy gap and its impact on, and the role of, the organization.
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Employee-employer [...]
Also filed in Blogs, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Learning, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Work Literacy
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Tagged employee, employer, Knowledge Work, Organizations, Work Literacy
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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, Learning, Narrative, 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.
When a friend told me I should try out Microsoft OneNote 2007 - I think his exact words were, “Dude, I don’t know how I lived without it!” - I downloaded the trial to give it a try. (Interestingly OneNote was not part of the Office 2007 Professional package, it is only part of the Home and Student package.)
So far, I like it. Or at least the concept. I’ve not put too much into it yet, but I see the possibilities.
Also filed in Innovation, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Miscellaneous, Tools
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Tagged Infinity Journal, Levenger, Microsoft Office 2007, Mind-Manager, Moleskine, Notebooks, OneNote, Outlook, TabletPC, The Brain
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I’m the first to admit that I don’t read nearly as much as I used to. And the subjects of my reading has changed quite a bit too. I used to have a steady diet of fiction (mostly related to military, intelligence, historical, etc.), then a bit of a mix of fiction / non-fiction, and now an almost exclusive diet of non-fiction.
The New York Times today writes about the new gamer generation in Retirees Discover Video Games. Yep, retirees. They are making up a larger and larger part of the market for “casual” games, and game developers and distributors are taking notice. The Nintendo Wii, with its simple controls for many games, is making a splash of its own.
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