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building the body of knowledge
Why does a body of highly intelligent people, IT professionals allegedly renowned for their logical and systematic approach to problems, find it impossible to establish a genuinely sustainable and cumulative corpus of best practice, professional knowledge and lessons learned? Travelling home on the train yesterday, as I listened to a favourite song, I realised that for all the talk of Web 2.0 there is nothing absolutely new on the web. Nearly forty years ago, notorious disc jockey Tom Clay hit the U.S. Billboard Top Ten in 1971 with what might arguably be the mother of all mashups. How does your career path look, like a treadmill or like a travelator? Picture credit: lars hammar For most people it’s fairly easy to tell because they are head down, covering the same ground – day in, day out. They are relentlessly driving the treadmills that power our organizations. But even those who believe that they are striding purposefully Building an effective team
We spend a lot of time, effort and money on so-called “team-building” events and initiatives. But that term [team-building] usually relates to enhancing the morale and cohesion of existing teams. Picture credit: Tom Brogan We don’t, however, spend so much time thinking about real team-building – i.e. creating new teams, from scratch. Which is a pity. Of If prophets are despised in their own land, where does that leave Visionaries – are they trapped or liberated by their own insight? The V word has increasingly wide currency but is far more often misappropriated than warranted. So how do you recognise a true visionary among the pretenders? Picture credit: krish.tipirneni Well there is an obvious distinction |
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