Category: Stories
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Communities of Practice, Virality, and Josh Billings
In this last post for the semester, I am going to try and relate the three articles as well as discuss what I (and maybe my classmates) learned. We may not have internalized it, but at least we saw it. I picked up several articles this weekend and put them aside; they just didn’t call…
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Danger, Will Robinson!
If you were to go into my Outlook mail box(es), you would be lost with little hope of finding your way back. I don’t know what I use for organizational categories and I rarely plan it out. Generally, I use what comes to mind. The reasons for all this chaos is that I rarely think…
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The Burden of Proof
My daughter says that Richard Scarry was scary. My wife loves this song. I have proof now that she is not crazy and that this song is real. You never know what you will find in the library.
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Déjà vu
I picked up the Ackerman article and was immediately struck with a sense of Déjà vu. I am sure I have read this paper before. In fact, it’s in my references for EndNote citations. For the life of me, I cannot figure out where I read it previously or why. I looked in my usual…
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Terrible things, yes, but great
Wow, what a couple of weeks! Who would have thought that a company would be in the middle of a scandal about using Facebook data without permission against us? Oh wait, that’s happened before… Well, at least Cambridge Analytica did something really new with it. It sort of feels like we are living in the…
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Bandwidth
“The major explanation for the lack of productive cooperation between the universities is to be found in their sense of competition with one another”. A fascinating article by Collins (1974) offers insights about how knowledge diffuses across practitioners of common scientific craft but also how they don’t truly trust one another. I could contrast that…
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Adages, Idioms, Proverbs, are Lessons Learned
This post continues the saga of organization’s learning practices; tacit, or unwritten knowledge; and how things ultimately get better. Based on the commentary by JennNippert, I elected to read the article by Brown and Duguid. I decided to add some other articles that sounded cool and since I worked on the Space Shuttle program, a…