I know I spent much too much time on a knowledge management project this weekend. Then I read this and thought of some of the recent debates --- of the "pretty frustrating" vein (Cort). For what it's worth --- this is clipped from a Knowledge Management newsletter and is appropriately credited for text (Jackie). --------------------------------------------------- DAVID WEINBERGER'S BAD IDEAS----------------------- The danger of knowing Philosophers argue whether if you know something, you also know that you know it. If knowledge has something to do with having good reasons for believing something, then it seems to me that if you know something but don't know that you know it, then knowing it -- as opposed to thinking it may be right -- doesn't do anyone much good. So, for purposes of this column, let's assume that if you know something, you know that you know it. In which case: What's the difference between someone who knows a lot and someone with a narrow, stubborn view of the world? After all, both don't budge from their positions, and both see everything through a set of assumptions that simply "knows" that everyone else's view is wrong. In a word, you don't want to sit next to either one on a plane ride. Continued at: http://www.kmworld.com/resources/featurearticles/index.cfm?action=readfeature& Feature_ID=149 --------------------------------------------------- Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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