aSome years ago I was offered a writing assignment that would require three months of travel through Europe. I had been abroad a couple of times, but I could hardly claim to know my way around the continent. Moreover, my knowledge of foreign languages was limited to a little college Frenc...
One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things during times of change. So most writing about productivity systems stem from people whose systems have failed them. It is with this ironic ...
My main advice to those of you wanting to go through the same process is to not take any knowledge about what you do for granted, but explain it and put it into a context. I did the usual smart thing and tried to check out the backgrounds and pedagogical focus of the committee members...
If itis a scourgethat has the power to destroy civilization, and drasticaction is taken: Civilization is saved. If itis a scourgethat has the power to destroy civilization, and drastic action isnot taken: Civilization may be destroyed. If it isnot a scourgethat has the power to destroy civi...
“Success is the sum of details.”(Quote by Harvey S. Firestone – founder of Firestone Tire & Rubber) Your successful chemical product development really is in the details as Mr. Firestone states. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and experience of product development from concept to finished...
The bottom line is there probably is no end to that line of questioning. Because if if your one big mistake was the thing that made all the difference, carrying that knowledge back to that moment and doing otherwise will still haunt you as it does right now, because you are still carryin...
knowledge, undermining confidence in scientific research.36In these cases, it is essential that the scholarly community support legitimate research and avoid supporting predatory journals and conferences. This can be done by not publishing in them, not attending them, not serving as reviewers, editors...
Mental models and cognitive mapping are powerful tools to identify cause and effect relationship among various strategic elements (Ackermann et al., 2005); it is used for modeling dynamic systems as it describes expert knowledge of complex systems with high dimensions and a variety of factors (...
You feel safe in the knowledge and skills you acquired over the years. It would be nearly impossible if your whole identity wasn’t associated with this role/profession. You have become a Doctor, Lawyer, Software Developer, Security Architect, Plumber, Teacher, Social Worker, Electrician, or ...
You feel safe in the knowledge and skills you acquired over the years. It would be nearly impossible if your whole identity wasn’t associated with this role/profession. You have become a Doctor, Lawyer, Software Developer, Security Architect, Plumber, Teacher, Social Worker, Electrician, or ...