Please see below selected 2014 knowledge-related good practices across a range of industries:
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did- and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been - from Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The four cardinal virtues- courage (andreia), moderation (sophrosyne), wisdom (sophia) & justice (diksiosyne) are ordered by practical wisdom, realised by interaction within the world, the capacity for knowledge in action - Dave Snowden, KM Australia 2009 presentation
Ownership is not the paradigm of the modern age, instead its access to knowledge- the ability to integrate and connect, to serendipitously synthesise different bodies of knowledge - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/03/situated_meaning_a_ref…
A funny thnig happened on the way to the knowledge economy- we somehow got stupider - Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft, quoted in Time, 08/06/09
You should never allow knowledge to turn into a spectator sport, by condoning rankings, awards, "hotness" &"incentives"" - Nassim Taleb (on Twitter)
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something - Richard Feynman
We don't expect everyone to drive the same make and colour of car to work, nor should we expect everyone to use the same tools for collaboration. We are shifting to a multi-supplier app driven eco-system and the behemoths so beloved of IT departments need to be challenged. Context is everything in KM and the attempt to create single software supplier ecologies is very very dangerous - Dave Snowden, http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/entry/5738/..-as-sick-stigma-is-to-innov…
Thinking about it most of the innovation in KM has come from engineering...narrative rich problem solving cultures - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2009/08/kmaus09_final_session_…
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom - Isaac Asimov