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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Government 2.0 ClubGovernment 2.0 Club 8 years, 9 months ago

    So perhaps the real challenge is: How to continue leveraging timeless leadership methods in an era of data overload and information scarcity? I agree with Charles, and go a bit further: Truly great leadership has always been about understanding that leadership emerges from the interaction of a leader, the team, and the situation. Rapid…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 2 months ago

    @Peter – concur! And here is where it gets dicey with the language. We need to be more precise; because “sharing knowledge” in a different bubble than ‘facilitate collaboration’ can get confusing. We need to avoid our old comfortable terms where they confuse more than illuminate.

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 2 months ago

    @Noha, If I may offer an observation. My approach to KM is much about the flows of knowledge (since that lives only in brains). So, in fact, this graphic describes much of what we view as KM. The bubble to “share, manage, retain knowledge” should have a different noun: information, intellectual capital, etc. Information at rest is not knowledge.

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 2 months ago

    Let me be concise in my response: No one with a KM background is writing absurd blogs or articles about that SM/KM dichotomy. KM folks welcome the developments in SM as advancing many of our hopes and promises – while a few SM folks declare that KM people are clueless and rendered obsolete by SM.
    It gets a bit tiresome. We see SM and think:…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 2 months ago

    Increasingly, we are able to include ideation practices to tell the story of how KM is relevant to innovation – I know some see that as an overused buzzword, but I don’t see many in the private sector pooh-poohing the concept. Ideation involves behavior, expectations, open decisions, rapid and transparent feedback cycles, absurdly easy tools,…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux replied to the topic Managing Gen Y: Do They Require a Different Approach? in the forum Human Resources 9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Bill, dead on. My favorite reflection here was someone’s apocryphal quote that has a young person saying: “Look at all the technology around me. The Internet, satellites, cell phones, portable music, etc. What did your generation do without all these things?” The answer: “We built them.”
    This is why we look to what we know about…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux replied to the topic Managing Gen Y: Do They Require a Different Approach? in the forum Human Resources 9 years, 7 months ago

    Agree – except the research does not point to anything such as “universal” values of a generation. There is a wide variance (deviance) within any generational cohort – and the things you point to matter much more than the birth year. The plural of anecdote is not data, folks. The research does not support these generational distinctions. And…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux replied to the topic Managing Gen Y: Do They Require a Different Approach? in the forum Human Resources 9 years, 7 months ago

    It is heartening to see people agree that humans are humans, and deeply individual. Every once in a while, a consultant comes along, writes an article/book and declares (s)he’s found the 5-7 things that the new crop of young’uns has in common! Gosh, it’s as if they were born with an Android in their grubby fists, they won’t put up with having to…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux replied to the topic Managing Gen Y: Do They Require a Different Approach? in the forum Human Resources 9 years, 7 months ago

    I still have no patience with categorizing people based on the year of their birth. Yes, they grow up surrounded by common influences, to a degree, but these references to “Gens” reduces human beings to cattle.

    And I speak as a dry-aged Angus.

    Here’s someone who agrees, to an alarming degree, with the need to scold, er, manage young…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux replied to the topic Is “Trusting Your Gut” a Viable Decision-Making Method? in the forum Smarter Government: Analytics to Outcomes 9 years, 7 months ago

    … The bottlenecks are inherent to democracy. We have an adversarial political process, whereupon government decisions are questioned in a forum that does not trust the intentions of government leaders. This is quite a shame, as it turns out our ‘gut’ is always involved in decision making. The question of “reason or emotion” is a false choice…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 7 months ago

    @Sandy, I will take a look at the offerings of Elliot Jacques – but I have to tell you that the first line of his site is a bit of a jolt, stating as it does:
    “Requisite Organization is the only systematically scientific approach to management.”
    Putting aside that the original Scientific Management (Taylor) school has been thoroughly…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 7 months ago

    Am I allowed to say I told ya so? 🙂

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 7 months ago

    Ray,
    We agree more than it appears. When I refer to governance, I am thinking about self-organizing systems. Governance can be bottom-up and fluid – the preferred mode for these spaces. And I agree, I too wish this space would be more about the things you mention. That’s why I write the occasional blog from that perspective, (latest at: https…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 7 months ago

    @Ray – Good points, all. You’re getting to the governance of this group, which is currently, well, ungoverned. Some of us may work as gentle antibodies, pushing back on some of the market-ware that makes its way into our humble gathering. (Of course, that earns some of us a reputation as curmudgeons, which is mainly why Doug loves and stalks me…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 7 months ago

    @Ray, this is a fair challenge. Agree with your view that the graph is marketing-driven, not any information provided and terms misused on the axes. This is a classic Beltway PowerPoint Client Assault. “You bought ECM, CRM, BPM – now you’re ready to buy ACM!”
    [Reminds me of a radio commercial making the rounds, inadvertently an honest…[Read more]

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 10 months ago

    Wait, you aren’t paying?! 🙂

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    John Bordeaux posted an update in the group Group logo of Knowledge Management in GovernmentKnowledge Management in Government 9 years, 10 months ago

    With respect, a useful one-liner is self-contained, I.e, without the need for hyperlinks.

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