Category Archives: Managers

On the inside, the roses grow - value in corporate blogging

January 4, 2008 – 12:58 pm

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!While the title is a reference to a line in a song that was the theme of one of the mainstays of 1980s Australian television, it’s also strongly reflective of my opinion on corporate blogging. Smart corporate blogging [...]

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Power to the people

January 4, 2008 – 12:58 pm

Here’s the deck I presented at the IIM National Conference yesterday. It’s a look at the shift in the nature of KM, knowledge work and knowledge workers and what their organisations can do to make their own and their employees’ lives easier.

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The wrong question

June 24, 2007 – 3:48 pm

The “Ask the Experts” column in the latest (May 2007) issue of the Australian Institute of Management magazine Management Today contains a reader question as follows:
I’ve got some very knowledgeable people working under me, and frankly, it’s hard managing them.
I don’t know about you, but this strikes me as the wrong question to ask. [...]

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Radically transparent leadership

June 9, 2007 – 9:17 pm

Clive Thompson recently published an article entitled The See-through CEO, where he discusses the notion of radical transparency. For those of you unfamiliar with the notion, it’s an extremely empowering way of running your business completely in the open. From the Wikipedia definition:
Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision making [...]

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Toward mutual understanding

May 7, 2007 – 5:00 pm

Wouldn’t it be great if every time a knowledge worker and their manager talked about anything, both of them had a complete understanding of each other’s point-of-view?
What this is all about is finding common ground - that happy place where both worker and manager agree and are comfortable conversing.  Over at Flying Solo, Kath O’Sullivan [...]

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