Knowledge Management can flourish in organizations where the interplay of ideas is valued, where insights are prized as critical raw materials. Unfortunately, that’s not in enough places. KM, as a practice, remains mired in old thinking. Let’s take a fresh start: It’s time for KM practitioners to start sketching out a new collaborative paradigm for the [...]
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KM’s Evolution: the “Connected Organization” and the Emergence of Knowledge Networks
Posted in collaboration, e20, km, tagged ba, flow, km, Knowledge Management, McAfee, Nonaka, paradigm on April 12, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Words That Matter: Wittgenstein and Senge on the Power of Language in Critical Thinking
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, culture, language, tagged bohm, change, collaboration, communication, education, innovation, knowledge, kuhn, language, learning, linkedin, paradigm, Senge, Wittgenstein on August 16, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Language, like the culture it derives from, plays a subtle but powerful role in how we interact with others. Yet we are so completely immersed in it, we scarcely give it a second thought. Early in the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein brought focus to the critical importance of language in the context of knowledge, philosophy, [...]
Philosophy and the Search for Ideas: Foundations of Critical Thinking
Posted in collaboration, critical thinking, paradigm, tagged abstraction, Aristotle, Bacon, context, critical, Hume, Kant, linkedin, ontology, philosophy, Plato, Pythagoras, science, series, Socrates, thinking, Wittgenstein on May 21, 2011 | 16 Comments »
As historians are quick to point out, the parallels between modern times and the classical world – including not only Greece, but also Rome – are plentiful. No new thinking here. In profound ways, our modern society, laws, forms of government and language are embedded in the classic traditions. But there’s more to the story [...]
Parent Engagement: Exploring Key Roles in the K12 Ecosystem
Posted in change, collaboration, ecosystem, education, tagged bureaucracy, change, community, culture, ecosystem, edreform, edu, education, innovation, linkedin on January 3, 2011 | 28 Comments »
From my experience, parents want their kids to have a great education, and most are willing to pitch in. On a good day, it might mean helping them study for a killer algebra test. On a bad day, it’s a more thankless task: helping them reevaluate priorities, prying fingers from the high tech keypads, smartphones [...]


