All Life Is Problem Solving

It’s been nearly 43 years since a liberal Democrat named Arlen Specter chose to become a Republican after successfully running on the Republican ticket for Philadelphia District Attorney. It’s been a long road, as the Party that gave him a chance to build a substantial legacy in the Senate became increasingly the home of intolerant […]

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(From http://www.obamamites.com) At his first 100 days news conference this evening, President Obama received the following question from Jake Tapper of ABC News: “Thank you, Mr. President. You’ve said in the past that waterboarding, in your opinion, is torture. Torture is a violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions. Do you believe that the […]

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Recently, in the actkm group, my friend Stephen Bounds raised the question of the relationship of KM to conflict in the context of a specific situation in which excessive conflict behavior within a project team was threatening successful completion of the project. This led to a pretty vigorous discussion and a great variety of opinions […]

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Today, Stephen Bounds offered an important blog post entitled “KM and Monte Carlo Simulations” and an attached paper entitled: “Using Monte Carlo simulations to predict outcomes of KM interventions.” In the paper, Stephen uses Monte Carlo simulations along with the assumption that across-the-board KM interventions have a probabilistic (propensity) effect on “knowledge failures,” to show […]

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Today I have but three questions to ask of the defenders of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” or “torture” as the opponents of using these techniques would prefer to call them.

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In a recent Newsweek column, after pointing out both the immorality and illegality of the Bush Administration’s use of torture on prisoners, Howard Feinman asked: ”What is Obama’s explanation for not strictly applying the law, American and international? It’s not moral, it’s practical: We need to move on; we have bigger, more urgent issues to […]

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Recently, John Ragsdale offered his view on the top five reasons for KM failure, in a blog post currently being discussed at AOK’s Future Center. My reaction to Ragsdale’s blog is that it seems to assume that a KM intervention is primarily about technology. So he gives us reasons like: “Expecting the KM technology to […]

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The Obama Administration worries about the consequences of taking over the big banks, re-structuring them, and then, once they’re “cleaned up,” re-privatizing them. They’re afraid of giving Republican charges of socialism credibility, and they’re afraid of possible consequences for the International Financial system if the big banks have to go through this process. So they’ve […]

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Recently, I’ve been having a good bit of fun with Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, a book I’ve been meaning to read for awhile but only recently have gotten to. Taleb’s book is mainly about the difficulty of predicting the future due to the weakness (partially based in evolution) in human abilities to predict […]

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I had hoped to blog a bit about a KM issue today, but so much is going on in Washington relating to the issue of accountability for the torturers, that I can’t really leave it alone. In my last post, I pointed out that the President’s decision to refrain from seeking prosecutions of the officials […]

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