Over the years, man has taught himself to hoard knowledge to achieve power. Today, we have to reverse the tendency. Today, the most powerful individuals will be those who become a source of knowledge by sharing what they have, or what they can get their hands on, with others - Robert Buckman, Chairman and CEO, Buckman Laboratories International
No one is a blacksmith at birth - African tribe Ovambo
No knower, no knowledge . . . know knower, know knowledge - Evelyn D. Robertson
No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future - Ian E. Wilson
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life - Sandra Carey
Most humans are kind, curious, knowledgeable, tolerant and funny - Stephen Fry http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/2009/01/29/twitter/
More and more, knowledge management is going to be about reducing the cost of, and simplifying the process for, letting someone watch what you do. Nonintrusively. Time-shifted. Place-shifted. Searchable. Archivable. Retrievable - Nancy White
Many KM programmes seem to be about identifying knowledge, capturing it and putting it in a database. The use of the word 'database' just about sums this perspective. Once knowledge has been encapsulated in this way, it is a long way from the original knowledge from which the database was created - from Is Knowledge Management the same as Information Management?, 1997
Managers don't read management books - they just collect them - Tom Peters
Make sure your knowledge has a customer - Kent Greene