Quotes

Remember that information flows, but that knowledge grows. Mark E. Nissen

Business is a conversation because the defining of work of business is conversation – literally. And knowledge workers are simply those people whose jobs consists of having interesting conversations. David Weinberger – The Cluetrain Manifesto

As Verna Allee says-  “ The important thing is . . . the real management question is . . . what do we pay attention to in order to be successful? Clearly, in this economy knowledge is something you have to pay attention to as a leader, as a manager, in order to be successful in your business. That’s what people need to go with. It’s not about the answer, it is getting their awareness onto the right question.”

Knowledge Management is management as if knowledge matters – Nick Milton, Knoco LTD

“Since the Greek philosophers, we have nurtured and sometimes abused the concept of knowledge, while always seeming to make longer-term progress. This upstart called knowledge management may be the beginning of a renaissance of thinking, creating, sharing and applying our greatest human asset—the ability to observe, understand, make sense out of our environment, and act upon our situation.” Alex Bennet in Characterizing the field of KM (2006).

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chines proverb (Thank you Marina for this one.)

We have modified our environment so radically that we must modify ourselves in order to exist in this new environment. (Norbert Wiener)

 

The problem is, our culture has absorbed so many of these changes that it’s easy to miss just how weird the new normal is. David Weinberger. Cluetrain Manifesto.