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Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield KM Question, Thought Leader, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week [ Blogroll - KM Home Page - Send a Question - Implementing a successful KM programme ] KM Question of the Week Q: What advice do you have for leaders? Knowledge – know as much as you can about your work, share your knowledge with others, and encourage them to do the same A: Here are three maxims on authentic leadership . Maxim #1: PICKLES

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A sneak preview of my up-coming column in the next edition of Inside Knowledge … Last month I had the opportunity to work with a network of business improvement professionals ( the I&I Network ) who wanted to understand where knowledge management tools and techniques could complement their world of LEAN, Six Sigma and Kaizen.  They could tailor their own custom toolkit with just the right amount of “Geek Factor” and not too much learning curve. During my childhood, I wiled away many an hour with school friends and a pack of Top Trumps cards. For the

Over the next few days I expect to announce some bits and pieces of community-building toolkit that I’m making open under Creative Commons. Due to the sickly condition of the Spanis economy, the options are four: either I get fired before year-end, or I manage to consolidate my employers’ community consulting practice (built solely on my shoulders) or I jump ship to build my own, or I jump ship for a different job (and, likely, country). At the end of August, the Spanish beaches become deserted of working-age natives: all trundle back to jobs and desks (if lucky) in their disparate, beach-less cities.

The second seminal experience was taking part in George Por’s “Knowledge Ecology University” or KEU as we called it, and the  relationship forming event of the KE Fair . Heaven because we can access knowledge and relationship like never before. Global Networks & Knowledge Sharing This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

All of this got me thinking about how on-target we are in the way we exchange knowledge, good practices, worst practices and stories.  Despite our best efforts, do people sometimes miss the mark when it comes to knowledge exchange?  As knowledge professionals, we work hard to use processes and social technologies to bring people together collaboratively.  Urinals.  Do you spend much time looking at them?

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Last week I spent half a day in a workshop on local government knowledge management. This focus on conversations is not new in the knowledge management field … what is different is see ng The event was organised by Steve Dale , who works with IDeA on improving how our councils operate - in his case by developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing, with Michael Norton, as I reported here . Boring waste of time? Absolutely not, because it gave me some breakthough thoughts on collaboration within and between organisations, and may well make a

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