Makes sense to me:
Knowledge stocks -> Knowledge Flows
Knowledge transfer -> Knowledge Creation
Explicit Knowledge -> Tacit Knowledge
Transactions -> Relationships
Zero Sum Mindset -> Positive Sum Mindset
Push Programs -> Pull Programs
Scalable Efficiency -> Scalable Peer Learning
Stable Environments -> Dynamic Environments
I’ve not read the book. Three things I might wonder about
Won’t economic actors will strive to own or control one [...]
I can’t believe I haven’t put this list in my collection of frameworks.
These are the eight ways to untrain a bad behavior, from Karen Pryor’s Don’t Shoot the Dog.
Shoot the dog
Punishment
Negative reenforcement
Extinction
Train an incompatible behavior
Put the behavior on cue
Shape the absence
Change the motivation
Number 6 is my favorite. For example if you want to get somebody [...]
I was working with someone a while back who was in the midst of advocating for an alternative approach inside his organization. He was frustrated. He was deeply convinced of the benefits of his new approach and frustrated by his colleagues passivity. My first thought was to recall a few of my lists, for example [...]
Why do we read those blogs, email, chats, twitter, voice mails, newspapers, magazines, etc. etc. Presumably there is some logic to that. Some motivational schema. There’s money in the answer to this question. Will my students pay attention? Will my novel be a hit? Will my newspaper survive? So, surely this question has [...]
Fun video by Barry Swartz author of “The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less”.
Why choice makes people miserable:
regret over the choice not taken, and fear of that future regret,
the cost of managing a portfolio of options,
the benchmark for success is raised higher, i.e. expectations escalate
self blame, when the choices made later appear to [...]
From “The Fundamental Templates of Quality Ads” (pdf).
Pictorial Analogy
Replacement
Extreme analogy
Extreme Situation
Absurd alternatives
Extreme Attribute
Extreme Worth
Consequences
Extreme consequences
Inverted consequences
Competition
Attribute in competitition
Worth in competition
Uncommon Use
Interactive Experiment
Activation
Imaginary Experiment
Dimensionality
New Parameter Connection
Multiplication
Division
Time Leap
As requests go “How long will it take?” is one of the tough ones. Taleb’s book Black Swan makes an thought provoking point about it. Like most of that book the underlying question is what statistical distribution the data is drawn. Naturally, that should color our expectations.
Some project durations are reasonable, Gaussian. [...]
A short but interesting posting that helped liberate an idea for me. Globalization’s fans claim the market for much of their ethical underpinnings. The market is good; globalization is an example of the spreading reach of markets, hence it’s a wonderful thing.
But, but. It seems to me that it’s just not that [...]
I like threes and I’m currently quite interested in how we manage (pilot?) our attention. How we make our choices. how we decide what to do. So I liked the intro to Kahneman and Lovallo’s 1993 paper on how “decision makers” go about their work. The paper is introducing a behavioral [...]
Here’s a nice sentence template:
“This mechanism is called Z and Z is a pivotal driver of Y. See W for an approachable introduction to the theory of Z. But be forewarned that there is a lot of artistic praxis involved as well.”
I’ve always liked the word praxis, or “practice or exercise of a technical subject”. [...]
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