Reflections on Management Podcast
1) S7E10 - Owning and Appraising Knowledge (Knowledge Management, Conclusion)
In this episode, I address a couple of critical points that drive what information is retained and what is withheld -- Who owns the information and who determines its value? And do our methods of esta...Show More
S7E10 - Owning and Appraising Knowledge (Knowledge Management, Conclusion)
20:11 | Dec 20th, 2022
2) S7E09 - Process Models and Other Oversimplifications (Knowledge Management, Part 9)
In this episode, I present the process-based meta-narrative that addresses organizational actions. Going beyond the simple models of flowcharts or sequences of steps, these metanarratives capture the ...Show More
S7E09 - Process Models and Other Oversimplifications (Knowledge Management, Part 9)
19:21 | Nov 22nd, 2022
3) S7E08 -- The Drama of Decision Making (Knowledge Management, Part 8)
In this episode, I present the preference-based meta-narrative that helps explain the way that decision makers deal with complexity -- both in terms of developing and selecting alternatives and in ter...Show More
4) S7E07 - Sequencing Activity into Streams (Knowledge Management, Part 7)
In this episode, I present the stream meta-narrative that helps capture sequences of interdependent processes that naturally flow from some sort of inputs to some sort of outputs. These metanarratives...Show More
5) S7E06 - Stories of the Ordinary Experience (Knowledge Management, Part 6)
In this episode, I talk about how I streamline the corporate vocabulary in the previous episode and use it to develop a meta-narrative that summarizes the full set of experiences in the organization b...Show More
6) S7E05 - Navigating the Corporate Vocabulary (Knowledge Management, Part 5)
Words matter, and sometimes the terms used in an organizational setting differ from common definitions and therefore create confusion. This is doubly difficult for an outside observer who is trying to...Show More
S7E05 - Navigating the Corporate Vocabulary (Knowledge Management, Part 5)
18:07 | Aug 23rd, 2022
7) S7E04 - Meta-Narratives of Level and Utility (Knowledge Management, Part 4)
How does one tell the difference between information meant for beginners versus information meant for experts? The short answer is the level of abstraction. What is meant for beginners tends to be mor...Show More
S7E04 - Meta-Narratives of Level and Utility (Knowledge Management, Part 4)
23:21 | Jul 26th, 2022
8) S7E03 - Organizing Information Through Meta-Narrative (Knowledge Management, Part 3)
There's an inherent challenge between the organization's preferred narrative that may drive how it organizes its corporate knowledge and the way individuals sort their component parts. One narrative m...Show More
S7E03 - Organizing Information Through Meta-Narrative (Knowledge Management, Part 3)
15:49 | Jun 28th, 2022
9) S7E02 - Transforming, Not Sorting, the Information (Knowledge Management, Part 2)
When reviewing old archives, it occurred to me that the archive serves as a window into the organization's behavior, but while the products of knowledge are present, much of the meaning behind them ge...Show More
S7E02 - Transforming, Not Sorting, the Information (Knowledge Management, Part 2)
17:18 | May 31st, 2022
10) S7E01 - Fifteen Years Archived on DVD (Knowledge Management, Part 1)
Busy professionals are so awash with information, much of it irrelevant or uninteresting, that they rarely have time to go back and sort through it all and make sense of it. Instead, all this stuff en...Show More