Talk Enough but No Conversation Conversing is different from talking

Gurteen Knowledge Blog   December 14, 2022, 14:03More and more, I am starting to differentiate between talk and conversation, although in everyday usage, I use the words interchangeably. I also write less about talking and more about conversing. So much so, as I edit my blook, I am replacing talk and talking with converse and conversing where … Continue reading Talk Enough but No Conversation Conversing is different from talking

Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations It's our job

Who gets to decide what makes a useful conversation. You or your manager?  In the book The ClueTrain Manifesto, David Weinberger says: It’s always struck me that David didn’t say productive conversations or conversations with “hard outcomes” – he simply said interesting conversations. I recently shared this quote with someone and their response was but … Continue reading Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations It’s our job

What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work

Peter Drucker introduced the term “Knowledge Worker” in his book Landmarks of Tomorrow in 1959. But what is a Knowledge Worker? Here is Peter’s answer: And here is a shorter, pithier one that I like from Tom Stewart But this one from David Weinberger in the Cluetrain Manifesto says it all for me. And then, … Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work

We Know So Much but Understand So Little It is through conversation we make sense of the world

Knowledge Management tends to focus on the management of information in the belief that if we have more information, better quality information, and more accessible information, we will do our jobs better. This belief is just not true. We need more. Let’s say we had perfect information – stored in a single, enormous, readily available … Continue reading We Know So Much but Understand So Little It is through conversation we make sense of the world