All Life Is Problem Solving

I’ve been waiting for universal health care legislation since 1949. But, of course, the opponents of such legislation don’t want us to do anything “hasty,” and “jam” legislation through Congress. They want “careful consideration” of health care reform as if 60 years of proposals, studies, and deliberation were not enough. Representing the opponents of universal […]

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Perhaps mercifully, if you’re one of my members who like my KM posts but can’t stand my take on political issues, I’ve been pretty quiet lately about the wars, filibusters, the economy, torture, health care, energy policy, political strategy, or any of the other issues I get the urge to comment on. That’s because having […]

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The Federal Government really needs Knowledge Management. It needs Knowledge Management in many, if not most of its agencies. It needs Knowledge Management in its inter-agency teams. It needs Knowledge Management in the Congress. It needs Knowledge Management in the Judiciary. It needs Knowledge Management in the Federal Reserve System. And it needs Knowledge Management […]

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s (NNT) The Black Swan is a “best seller,” and therefore may be having a certain influence on our thinking in many fields including Knowledge Management. From the viewpoint of KM, The Black Swan isn’t about what we know, or about what we know we don’t know, but rather is a book that […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Today, leading Civil Liberties and Human Rights Groups met with President Obama to talk about the recent actions of the Administration in seeming to support Bush Administration policies and his continued reluctance to support investigations and prosecutions for War Crimes. Reportedly, the President […]

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Dave Snowden, whose work I’ve often discussed here, recently filed this post which really speaks to me. I think it’s right on the money, and is about both KM and politics, and also complexity and measurement. I’ll look forward to the next one, Dave.

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Marcy Wheeler who most frequently blogs at Firedog Lake as “emptywheel,” just filed a blog at Salon entitled: “The 13 people who made torture possible.” I have two comments. First, please note Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, and any other distraction-motivated warriors vitally concerned about Nancy Pelosi’s alleged, but non-existent, insult of CIA personnel, […]

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It’s interesting to look at torture as practiced by the Bush Administration from the perspective of Knowledge Management. In this case, from the perspective of the three-tier model. Let’s begin with the process of an interrogator trying to retrieve “knowledge” from another person. That’s a particular kind of knowledge integration called searching and retrieving (how […]

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you believe this Kit Bond bull puckey about the CIA never lying to Congress, then I’ve got a bridge to sell you! But as everyone who is anyone except, of course, for the MSM and those unhappy that the Republican Party isn’t […]

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The Obama Administration evidently wants desperately to put the war crimes of the past behind America, and to address the economic, educational, environmental, energy, health care, and hopefully, equality issues that it views as the issues of our time. The trouble is that the people who really care about the Constitution won’t cooperate. There are […]

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