All Life Is Problem Solving

Last July I wrote two posts on National Governmental Knowledge Management. In the first, I made the case that there was a need to organize and implement formal KM in National Governments to see whether it can produce an ecology of rationality that will work to enhance knowledge processing, knowledge and adaptation throughout such Governments. […]

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In a recent blog called “Keep the Filibuster, Say Dem Senators,” Ryan Grim writes about the pushback from Democratic Senators against current calls from Progressives to get rid of the filibuster. Since this pushback was coming from four of my favorite Democratic Senators: Claire McCaskill, Amy Klobuchar, Barbara Boxer, and Patrick Leahy, I thought I […]

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A few days back Neil Olonoff was kind enough to send me a note on Linkedin alerting me to a webinar presentation he had given to members of the Federal Knowledge Management Working Group. Neil says: “It has resulted in an amazing amount of new energy and action in this group. Our Initiative to implement […]

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When the Senate cut Education Funding, Aid to the States, Aid to Low Income Families, Renewable Energy Investments, Health Information Technology, and Science Funding, all of which would have produced $.57 for each dollar invested, and, instead, increased wasteful tax cuts which will produce an additional $.02 gain on each dollar invested, I began to […]

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(From http://www.obamamites.com) In some previous political blogs, I’ve talked about getting bipartisanship the wrong way around, and how and why to get rid of the filibuster. In this blog, I want to intensify my message on these issues and also direct it to Barack Obama. Today, Paul Krugman weighed in on the Senate’s compromise “stimulus” […]

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The Republican Tax Cut wingnut, Steve Forbes, once said of the IRS: “The only thing we can do with this hideous beast is kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it, and hope it never rises again to terrorize the American people!” While I don’t share this view in relation to the IRS, […]

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Another Political Blog, I’m afraid. These may subside after awhile. But right now the dynamics of American Politics are awfully interesting, and I do think that this piece has some connection with problem solving and KM. Once again, Dick Cheney has disturbed the peace. In a transparent attempt to “salt the mine,” he has delivered […]

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Robert Reich offered an interesting piece on the key turning point in the Administration’s economic program in the Washington Post today. I think that he’s right that Obama’s position on structuralism vs. cyclism and his ability to educate the public on structuralism and gain political support for it is critical for America’s future. Take a […]

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Why was bipartisanship possible and successful in earlier times, while it’s unlikely to succeed now? In earlier periods of bipartisanship, margins in the Senate were smaller than they are now, and the legislative and executive branches were often divided between the parties. During the period before the Republican electoral takeover of the South; bipartisanship was […]

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From time-to-time, I’ll be departing from the Knowledge Management subject matter of this blog to make a political comment. Sometimes, KM will be intertwined with a political post. But sometimes it will be all political opinion without any KM content. President Obama’s pursuit of bipartisanship is doomed to failure because it won’t stop Republicans from […]

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