Category: Posts, Thoughts, and Musings
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It’s an occupational hazard kind of thing…
When you study something, you start to see it everywhere. I’m a competitive intelligence manager at work. I help sales people sell better or product teams build a better product, depending on who you talk to. Sometimes I do both. Lately I’ve been selecting knowledge management articles about knowledge transfer, competitive advantage, and learning. As Alex…
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And the Oscar is…
Truthfully, I have no idea. I’m just using that title because my wife purchased an ‘Oscar-palooza’ package from the movie theater, so for the next week or so, we get to watch all the Oscar candidate movies. That will probably be something like 1.67 movies a day. Phew! Therefore, I need to get this post out…
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If you don’t write it down, it will never happen
Last week, the blog post was about adages, and how they represent lessons learned. This week, after reading about codification and economics, I’m looking at how people encode knowledge. This week’s articles (see Bibliography, below) have returned to the idea of somehow encoding knowledge; which, because we are all unique individuals, ultimately become unique knowledge…
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Sea Stories and Fairy Tales
What’s the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale? Fairy tales start, “Once upon a time…” and sea stories start, “No shit, there I was…” I may have mentioned this before: I am a movie buff and I love using movie scenes as allegories and metaphors to illustrate a point. Sadly, this does…