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The reality of the other person lies not in what He reveals to you but in what He cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand Him, listen not to what He says but rather to what He does not say.
Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931) Lebanese-American Poet Philosopher & Artist
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
A recent survey conducted jointly by Mitch Ditkoff and Tim Moore of Idea Champions, Carolyn Allen of Innovation Solution Center and Dave Pollard of Meeting of Minds reveals that most people would rather have inexperienced people with a positive attitude than highly experienced people who lack enthusiasm, candor or commitment, on a collaborative work team.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quality and, hopefully, in value.
Louise L’Amour
(1908-1988) Writer
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
A poem by Emily Dickinson (1830–86):
The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.
The brain is deeper than the sea,
For, hold them, blue to blue,
The one the other will absorb,
As sponges, buckets do.
The brain is just the weight of God,
For, lift them, pound for pound,
And they will differ, if they do,
As syllable from sound.
From Complete Poems (1924).
First on Mind Hacks, The blog of the O’Reilly book ‘Mind Hacks’
Well-behaved women rarely make history.
Anita Borg
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
By learning seven foundation practices, anyone can produce innovations intentionally.
Innovation as Language Action propose a framework for identifying the linguistic distinctions and specific skills involved in taking new technology inventions into the broader market.
It defines “invention” as the actual creation of a new technology, and “innovation” as the process of technology adoption - for example, the Wright Brothers invented flight at Kitty Hawk, but the innovation in flight was the DC9, 30 years later. PC/M was an invention in operating systems, but MS-DOS was the innovation - it spread broadly and became the standard for future developments in the industry.
Dr. Peter Denning and his co-author, Robert Dunham, detail seven specific elements of an innovation framework:
* Seeing opportunities
* Envisioning new worlds
* Offering new games
* Executing plans and tools
* Producing adoption
* Sustaining infrastructure
* Leading with care, value, power, and focus
First on What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Sam Ramji of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Lao-Tzu
(604BC - 531BC) Chinese Taoist Philosopher
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968) American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
In business jargon, ambidexterity represents “the ability to do two seemingly opposing things equally well.” In simple terms, a firm is good at today’s operations and is poised to do well in the future as well.
Professor Mike Tushman of Harvard Business School looks at ambidexterity as being simultaneously good at exploitation and exploration.
I find Google is a contemporary example of ambidexterity as it explores new avenues–look at Google Labs (http://www.labs.google.com/) while exploiting its superior functionality through adwords http://https://adwords.google.com/select/ and adsense http://https://www.google.com/adsense/
Looking through the lens of Google’s 70-20-10 (the way Google employees allocate their scarce resources, time), 70% of Google’s efforts are directed at exploitation of their current offerings while 30% are spent on exploring new avenues or vistas (no pun intended!).
Information is about who did what, where and when while knowledge is more about how and why.
David Gurteen
(b. 1948) Knowledge Consultant
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People are shying away from the next “best thing” and opting for products that “work for me.” As a result words like “emotion” and “personal meaning” are finding their way into corporate strategic briefs, in places where words like gigabytes and baud rate used to reside. Even new descriptions of great design — “easy,” “accessible,” “affordable,” “empowering” and “personal” — reflect on the person rather than the object.
Emotional Mapping is a design process that uncovers feelings and attitudes towards products. It gathers information on why people prefer one product over the other. It identifies key attributes, tangible and intangible, overt and subtle, conscious and subconscious, that help connect products and people. This insight can focus a design team’s creativity, add clout to the creative process, and result in more innovative, radical and successful ideas.
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And knowledge workers are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
Christopher Locke
Journalist & Author
The ClueTrain Manifesto
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be “flow,” and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it.
We should distrust any elaborately planned, centrally deployed, and carefully developed business system or process. Successful systems and processes will be agile and dynamically adaptive; they’ll grow and evolve as needed over time.
Ray Ozzie
CEO of Groove Networks Inc. & creator of Lotus Notes
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype
Web 2.0 isn’t a ‘thing’, but a collection of approaches, which are all converging on the development world at a rapid pace. These approaches, including APIs, RSS, Folksonomies, and Social Networking, suddenly give application developers a new way to approach hard problems with surprisingly effective results.
The Power behind the Hype
Problems not withstanding, we still feel that this emerging standard, combined with other new tools, such as AJAX and open source infrastructures, makes for a new and exciting environment. There’s been a tremendous amount of hype surrounding all these new developments, but, for once, we are thinking that there really is some power that is beneath the hype that is worth paying attention to.
