Today marks the 10-year anniversary of my discharge (honorable, in case you’re wondering) from active duty as a US Army officer. It was while serving in the Army, both on active duty and later in the Army Reserves, that I was first exposed to and practiced knowledge management so it seemed fitting that I mark [...]
Tagged KM, Knowledge Management, WorkAs a follow up to my last post, The importance of forgetting, it seemed appropriate to republish the following, which I originally posted in March 2007. = = == === ===== ======== A blog post I wrote a year ago. Playing around with David Allen’s Getting Things Done. A recent article in Fast Company. Reading [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Work, ToolsYesterday I mentioned that one of my key mind mapping tools is Personal Brain. If you’ve ever used the Brain, you know that “mind map” is a bit of an understatement of its capabilities and how easy it is to accumulate a lot of knowledge and interconnected information. Over the past couple of years my [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Work, Life, ToolsA mind map is a great tool, and mind maps should be a key part of any knowledge/concept worker’s tool kit. To supplement the hand drawn maps that are scattered throughout my notebooks and across whiteboards, I primarily use two pieces of mind mapping software: MindManager (Pro 6) and Personal Brain (5). (In the interest [...]
Tagged Concept Work, Knowledge Work, Mind Maps, mindmap, ToolsA few days ago while re-reading some parts of The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size I tweeted the following: Is it possible that the problem isn’t too much information, but not enough info going into our subconscious to help us maintain context? When I wrote that, I was thinking of the lack of [...]
With high school and college graduation season in full swing, and as my son’s 18th birthday quickly approaches, it seems a fitting time to repost this blog entry I wrote for Left Brain/Right Brain back in October 2007. There was quite a bit of discussion when I first posted this, so visit the original post [...]
Tagged autism, LifeOver the past week or so there have been several blogs that have helped me pull together a bunch of things I’ve been trying to connect in my mind for a while. First was Harold Jarche’s post Working Together, in which he looked at Shawn Callahan’s ideas on group work against the backdrop of Tom [...]
Tagged ArtOfLiving, chaotic, Complexity, complicated, Concept Work, Cynefin, DeliberatePractice, Knowledge Work, learning, Mastery, WorkLiteracy
