KM professional certifications; What’s the point?

Let me go on record by saying that I absolutely do not believe that anyone interested in working within the knowledge management area should even consider worrying about getting a professional certification. In my opinion, it means nothing.  Especially since any of the certifications available today are really not certifications, but training. Now, I am [...]

What do you need to be creative?

Creativity is required in our day-to-day jobs.  As a leader, understanding what each employee needs to be their most creative is extremely important.  Especially when you are trying to create new products or services through the knowledge of your employees.  It is very important to create the “field” within which employees can be their most [...]

How do you eliminate Content Hairballs?

Why the hell can’t I find it?  Where did I put it?  Which one is the most current?    When I find it, I’m not sure it’s the right one! 
 Any of these sound familiar?  Content management has become the bane of our business existence.  Supposedly we went from the pain of paper, to a paperless wonderland.  [...]

Do we really want balance in life?

“Equilibrium is neither the goal nor the fate of living systems, simply because as open systems they are partners with their environment.  The study of these systems, begun with Prigogine’s prize-winning work (1980), has shown that open systems have the possibility of continuously importing free energy from the environment and of exporting entropy.  They don’t [...]