Media Information By David Gurteen My son Jonathan bought me Clay Shirky's book Cognitive Surplus for my birthday and I am looking forward to settling down to read it. It goes on to catalog the means and motives behind these new forms of cultural production, as well as key examples. Credit: Adapted from Wikipedia. MORE >>

Problems in organizations tend to get labelled as lack of information. It feels more professional to try to solve a knowledge management problem that is called lack of information than a problem that is called confusion. Because any information can mean a variety of things, meaning cannot simply be discovered. We have to talk! MORE >>

This is how she summarises: In sum, there is no best way to do anything independent of context, so the leader cannot have privileged information. By David Gurteen I have long been a fan of Ellen Langer and reviewed her book The Power Of Mindful Learning in my August 2000 knowledge letter. The cost is that they create lemmings. MORE >>

Media Information: In this interview at KM India , I was asked for my views on "Incentivizing Knowledge Management". By David Gurteen. Video: David Gurteen on Incentivizing Knowledge Management. This interview was conducted by Alakh Asthana of eClerx Services at KM India 2009 in Chennai. Here is my response. Oh yea!) Its that simple! MORE >>

We evolved to handle unstructured fragmented fine granularity information objects, not highly structured documents. Our brains evolved to handle fragmented patterns not information. By David Gurteen Dave Snowden has recently expanded his 3 Rules of Knowledge Management to 7 Principles of Knowledge Management. Everything is fragmented. MORE >>