When I was young, I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark with my mom. At the conclusion of the opening sequence, as Indy’s escape plane flies away, my mom leaned over and said, “Oh my God. Is the whole movie going to be like this?” I had a very similar feeling when – on [...]
Also tagged ArtOfLiving, Books, learning, Life, Mastery, passion, thinking, Work, Work as ArtAs I mentioned a couple of days ago, Dan Pink‘s new book Drive touches on something that I’ve been thinking about for many years: the role – or lack thereof – of mastery in the workplace. I’ve been going through my archives pulling together my thoughts on the subject over the years and found the [...]
Also tagged ArtOfLiving, learning, Mastery, WorkSeveral years ago (has it really been almost 5 years?!?) I wrote a somewhat tongue-in-cheek blog post entitled “My dad is a knowledge worker“: While I was reading Martin Roell’s Terminology: “Knowledge Worker”, a TV commercial I saw a while back came to mind: elementary school students were telling the class what their dads did [...]
Also tagged Knowledge Work, WorkLiteracyAs 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged Knowledge Work, Mind Maps, mindmap, ToolsOver 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 [...]
Also tagged ArtOfLiving, chaotic, Complexity, complicated, Cynefin, DeliberatePractice, Knowledge Work, learning, Mastery, WorkLiteracyIf you ask a competitive athlete if they have / need a coach the answers will likely range from “Yes” to “Of course” to “Are you kidding?”. If you ask a knowledge worker, or concept worker, the same question the answers will likely range from “No” to “Huh?” to “Are you kidding?” Obviously, the “Are [...]
Also tagged athletes, coach, Knowledge Work, LinkedIn, Mastery, sportsThe nature of knowledge work, and the value of the term itself, is a much discussed question. See, for instance, this conversation on the nature of knowledge work from earlier this year. Although I don’t believe that the term “knowledge worker” is irrelevant, I do share Tony Karrers’s unease with the almost generic application of [...]
Also tagged Dan Pink, Knowledge Work, Mastery, right brain, Tony Karrer
