[A consultant's second thoughts]

The end of “Need To Know”

YGG — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:34:05 +0000

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?”.

Posted in Concepts, Hypothesis, Musings

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

YGG — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:00:38 +0000

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.

Posted in Concepts, Hypothesis

Treasure

YGG — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:19:17 +0000

You think you treasure it because it’s precious, but it’s precious because you treasure it

Posted in Hypothesis

High context

YGG — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:16:33 +0000

In high context cultures, you learn as much from what people don’t say than from what they do say. (“Ruggles of Red Gap” –Leo McCarey : “It’s very big!”)

Posted in Intercultural

Fleeting thought

YGG — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:06:35 +0000

“I’m a tool waiting to be used” [?]

“Is France a country?” :-))

YGG — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:10:05 +0000

I can’t believe it!

“How do you best learn?”

YGG — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:46:58 +0000

The only question worth asking at this time is “How do you best learn?”.

Isn’t it?

Non native speakers?

YGG — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:49:34 +0000

Trying to build a team with people who have very different levels of English : native speakers v. non native speakers, who might be native non speakers actually ;-)

How to make native speakers understand we always make an effort when we speak English; I’m forever watching myself speaking when I speak English. (& I’ve been working in English for the past ten years; I lead seminars in English, I coach people; I translated conferences in real time).

“It’s a cultural thing”

YGG — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:39:37 +0000

When you hear “It’s a cultural thing”, it’s most of times about the other’s culture; you and I don’t have a “cultural thing”, we’re the norm of normalcy ;-).

Buying BS law

YGG — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:28:11 +0000

I discovered a ‘law’ I’d like to share with you; it goes like this:”if you buy somebody else’s bullshit… then you own it!” ;-)