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Visualizing air traffic patterns

PZ Myers points to a fascinating visualization of air traffic patterns. It’s from work done by Aaron Koblin at UCLA. Visualizing air traffic patterns One word: awesome.   Tags: visualization, air+traffic

2007 06 12 Jim Comments (0)

Warren Bennis on Great Groups

Organizing Genius : The Secrets of Creative Collaboration Bennis, Warren; Biederman, Patricia Much of the talk about Enterprise 2.0 centers on the possibilities that new technologies open up for improved cooperation and collaboration in organizations. The problems of cooperation and collaboration in organizations have attracted attention long before today’s technology options existed. Warren Bennis has [...]

2007 04 30 Jim Books/Reviews Comments (3)

Alan Kay on learning and technology

Alan Kay is talking once again about what went wrong with the personal computer and personal computing. Here’s a pointer to a recent interview he did with CIO Insight magazine that is well worth your attention. A CIO Insight Alan Kay was recently interviewed for CIO Insight magazine’s Expert Voices feature. In this piece entitled [...]

2007 02 21 Jim Knowledge work Comments (2)

Jack Vinson’s plans to blog with his knowledge management class

I had lunch yesterday with Jack Vinson. Jack is teaching about knowledge management again this Spring and is planning on having his students keep blogs as part of the class experience. Back in 2002, I tired a similar experiment at Kellogg and blogged about the results then. I figured I would share the pointers here, [...]

2007 02 21 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Business Problems and Root Causes

Thanks to Jon Husband for pointing this one out. I’ve been a fan of Evelyn Rodriguez’s Crossroad Dispatches for a long while. Her writing challenges me to take risks that I don’t always rise to, but always appreciate. Business Problems and Root Causes A delicious discovery whilst browsing this morning … From Evelyn Rodriguez’ bio [...]

2007 02 07 Jim Organization Comments (0)

A nice substitute for plant tours

One of the enduring benefits of being a consultant over the years has been the opportunity to go on more than my fair share of plant tours. I love the chance to learn about all the ingenuity and creativity that goes into making stuff. If you can’t get to the actual plant tours, here’s one [...]

2007 02 07 Jim Resources Comments (0)

A few quotes to ponder

 I found these at a blog I’ve recently added to my news aggregator. Both the quotes and the blog are worth your consideration. Some quotes I really liked Found these in a completely different context (a discussion group about Prediction Markets); thought that they were wonderful descriptions of the “provisionality” of blogs. See what you [...]

2007 02 01 Jim Comments (0)

Sensemaking practices

There is an excellent discussion of learning as sensemaking going on over at Creating Passionate Users.  Dan Russell has a series of posts (Sensemaking 1, Sensemaking 2, Sensemaking 3) about his thoughts and practices when he takes on a new research based project. In addition to the value of Dan’s thoughts, each post has also [...]

2007 01 26 Jim Practices Comments (2)

The Expert on Experts and Expertise

Ericsson’s essential point is that expertise is a function of practice not talent. One key point he makes is that: “Successful people spontaneously do things differently from those individuals who stagnate. They have different practice histories. Elite performers engage in what we call “deliberate practice”–an effortful activity designed to improve individual target performance. There has [...]

2007 01 01 Jim Resources Comments (1)

Things you really need to learn

Both Stephen Downes and Guy Kawasaki have some thought provoking notions embedded in their lists. Neither will take you anywhere near as much time to read as they took to write their advice, so you can count on getting a pretty good return on your investment by leveraging their wisdom. Stephen Downes – Things You [...]

2006 10 08 Jim Comments (1)