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01 Nov 08

Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War

  • It takes no great genius to predict how the war will end. The Boomers will retire and the Millenials will win by default, in a bloodless end with no great drama. KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, with the Gen X leadership quietly slipping the best of the KM ideas into SM as they guide the bottom-up revolution.


    And it won’t be just a victory of fashion. It will be a fundamental victory of the better idea. SM is an organic, protean, creative and energetic force. KM is a brittle, mechanical, anxiety and fear-ridden structure. It is telling that the biggest KM concern is the potential loss of Boomer knowledge, a backward-looking preservation/archival concern, while the biggest current SM concern is probably the heart-stopping excitement around the possibilities of mobile devices and the potential Web-top-enabling Google Chrome.

26 Nov 07

» Top 10 Ways to Motivate Geeks >> The Retrospector

  • This point is based on the notion that if a geek feels his ability to gain knowledge is hindered he’ll try to find it somewhere else. Let them satisfy their curiosities with the task of picking up the latest technologies and applying them as they see fit. (Even if it’s just for a prototype.)
  • Don’t hinder their creativity, just let them figure it out. The exception to this is probably in design. You obviously have to define your interfaces between components and have your requirements for the implementation. Let the details get figured out by whoever’s doing the dirty work. You can optimize things later if they aren’t up to par.
05 Oct 07

MIT World » : Managers Not MBAs: Debating the Merits of Business Education

  • e yourself, get promoted into a managerial position—and then, go to a program that uses managerial experience explicitly—not other people’s cases, but your own experience.” Ricardo Semler proposes that the jury is still out on whether management constitutes a science, but Mintzberg counters emphatically: “There are no natural surgeons. But
  • Semler has authored two best-sellers, Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace and The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works. Semler is a Harvard Business School alumnus, and has twice been named Brazil's Business Leader of the Year.
08 Jul 07

scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Idea killers: ways to stop ideas

  • Mostly these are used as thought inhibitors: they don’t require any thought to say. They’re used as flinch negative responses, dismissing without explanation. Unlike real critical thinking, which offers a path (e.g if you can overcome x, y and z we’ll consider it) idea killers are lazy dead ends.
19 Jun 07

Effective Project Management for Web Geeks [Work Smarter]

  • "Project Management" has always been a term more likely to elicit a
    groan than a smile. Nevertheless, the use of project management skills is often
    what distinguishes an easy, successful project from a painful and unsatisfactory
    one. In a world where clients and business partners increasingly want a full
    solution, rather than just the component pieces of design and code, having basic
    project management skills, at least, is quickly becoming a requirement for web
    professionals.

  • The generic project lifecycle is fairly simple -- first you begin the project
    (Initiation), then you go on to actually do the project (Planning, Executing,
    and Controlling, which form a loop, since expecting things to go right first
    time is rather unrealistic) and finally you finish by making everyone happy and,
    with any luck, receiving payment (Closure). This process is illustrated in
    Figure 1.


    The
    project lifecycle (click to view image)


    Figure 1. The project lifecycle (see larger image in new window)

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