“Four Quick Stories of Lean”:https://joeelylean.blogspot.com/2003_09_28_joeelylean_archive.html#106521026202218281 Here are four useful illustrations of Lean Joe Ely has come across in the past week.
“Headcloud”:https://www.pmbrowser.info/hublog/archives/000513.html HeadCloud is a Napster-style service, where people connect to a central hub, send a list of the thoughts they want to share, and search the database of other people’s thoughts to see who they want to connect to. It’s called HeadCloud after the original vision – being able to walk down the street and see little clouds above people’s heads that showed what they were thinking. via Many2Many
“Bloggingworks Summary”:https://jackvinson.com/archives/002252.html Series of posts by Jack Vinson summarising Bloggingworks workshops about blogging in business
I went to a seminar last week on this topic given by Harvey Ratner from the Brief Consultancy. Solution-focused Coaching is the application of the Solution-focused Brief Therapy approach to coaching. In outline the approach seems to be: Elicit client’s “best hopes” for the meeting Elicit client’s ideal future Identify signs that progress has been made already Calibrate where the client thinks he/she is and what would be needed to make an incremental improvement
Lilia Efimova points to Introducing New Ideas Into Organisations, in particular the collection of patterns [PDF, 454 kB]. This is 123 pages, so I’ve only just started to work through it, but on first reading it’s fascinating – you know the “ah ha” moment when someone codifies stuff that you’ve been doing intuitively… Certainly I recognised many patterns here as things I and others have learned the hard way as ways of introducing our ideas into the daily life of the organisations we work with – and I think many of us will also be able to learn from it.
It’s raining so it must be time to start blogging again… 🙂 I’ve been wondering (yet again) about the importance of going with what feels right, the natural flow, and acknowledging your own energy level (or lack of it…) In the last two weeks I’ve: thoroughly enjoyed a long weekend in Paris (photos to follow when I remember to send off the film – you do remember film don’t you?)
It’s tempting to quote Ton and explain away my break from blogging as a period of attending to “the mundane task of broadening the base of [my] knowledge pyramid“. Perhaps true on one level or another but also a period of being very busy with work and generally enjoying the outdoors rather than being in front of the computer… In terms of reading, as usual I have had several books on the go at once, but the one that seems to have kept its presence in my work bag for those snatches of reading-catchup on the Tube has been Guns, Germs and Steel
Dave Pollard offers Seven Survival Tips for Knowledge Managers Focus knowledge and learning systems on ‘know-who’, not ‘know-how’ Introduce new social network enablement software and weblogs to capture the ‘know-who’. Keep only selected, highly-filtered knowledge in your central repositories. Don’t overlook the value of plain-old ‘data’. The bibliography may be more valuable than the document itself. Don’t wait for people to look for it, send it out, using ‘killer’ channels. Create an internal market for your offerings by giving valuable stuff away.
On Tom Peter’s site the Renewal 50. Selected favourites: Go to the nearest magazine shop. Now. Spend 20 minutes. Pick up 20-twenty!-magazines. None should be ones you normally read. Spend the better part of a day perusing them. Tear stuff out. Make notes. Create files. Goal: Stretch! Repeat… monthly… or at least bimonthly. Go to the Web. Now. Relax. Follow your bliss! Visit at least 15 sites you haven’t visited before.
“Parsing FOAF with PHP”:https://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/05/parsingFOAFWithPHP.html