The end of “Need To Know”

Reading an umptieth comparison “Management 1.0 v. Management 2.0″ I come to think:

“Need To Know” is dead; we need now “Need To Let Know”

Whatever’s happening in front of me, the constant thought should be “Who should know? Who is ging to miss this if I don’t let them know?”.

Distinguish Knowledge Management Lifecycle (KML) & Knowledge Lifecycle Management (KLM)

You have to distinguish Knowledge Management Lifecycle (KML) & Knowledge Lifecycle Management (KLM).

KM has a lifecycle of its own, clearly observable along the organization’s progress in KM — but Knowledge also has a lifecycle of its own, clearly observable along Continuous Improvement Processes like Kaizen, and this lifecycle can & should be managed.

Laffitte’s law

The XIX^th century French banker Laffitte is renowned –between other things—for saying: “a rich idiot is a rich; a poor idiot is an idiot”.

I suggest we call this structure “Laffitte’s law”.

Examples: for a French, a disciplined French is disciplined; a disciplined German is German… right?

Or: for an American, an American idiot is an idiot, a French idiot is a French—no?

This kind of “contamination” we do all the time, unknowingly.