My latest column at Enterprise Systems Journal appears today. In it I take a look at the notion of developing an ongoing learning agenda by focusing on the boundaries of your ignorance. One key graf: The late Isaac Asimov once observed that “the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new [...]
This is an interesting refinement on my laziness vs. diligence argument a while back. The danger is that it just becomes a slightly more clever way to reinforce the Protestant ethic Properly interpreted, however, Ballard provides a logic for making diligence pay off in compound interest terms. Let’s all get lazy If you want to be lazy [...]
[Cross posted at Future Tense] I’m in the midst of reading John Thackara’s excellent In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, which will eventually warrant a full review. Today, I want to pick up on one particular observation Thackara makes on the role of learning in organizations. He makes the point that …the most [...]
Dan Bricklin nicely summarizes most of the nice things I would have said in calling your attention to John Sviokla s new blog (Sviokla s Context). I think I can rightly take some credit for persuading John to add his voice and thinking to the mix. John and I first met twenty plus years ago [...]
I’ve been exploring the role of deliverables in understanding and improving knowledge work for a while. In January, I took another shot at articulating the link in a column in the Enterprise Systems Journal putting deliverables at the center of the challenge of improving knowledge work. Knowledge work does not produce standardized, well-defined outputs. Instead, [...]
Truly excellent advice, which I intend to follow as soon as I finish this post. See you on Monday. Stay away from the net today Bitflux has a a good post today. I simply quote what they said on this April 1st: Just go outside, enjoy the sun or do something else useful The net [...]
Back in December I wrote a column for the Enterprise Systems Journal on the notion of triangulation as a key data collection and analysis strategy that is increasingly relevant in an economy characterized by information abundance. My central point was that: In organizational (and other) settings where you are attempting to make sense of—or draw [...]
A nice resource courtesy of Jay Cross at Internet Time Blog. It’s been sitting in my aggregator waiting for me to pass it along and to make sure I post it as a resource for the future. Visual Thinking School. Dave Gray’s Visual Thinking School is simply wonderful! [Internet Time Blog]
[Cross posted at Future Tense] Paul Graham’s latest essay is getting some play including within the David Allen, Getting Things Done, world where I came across it. Frankly, I didn’t find it one of Graham’s better efforts and you’d probably be better off sticking with Allen’s insights about life and work. I’d boil down Graham’s [...]
Some interesting thoughts on how mindmaps can work in the context of case-based learning. I'll admit to long-term biases in favor of case-based learning properly done. I come by these biases having worked all sides of the experience; case method student, case writer, and case-based discussion leader. Doing it well can be exceptionally powerful. Doing [...]
