Hi Patrick, When I started doing these maps, in the early 2000s, I did speak to Andreas Weigand who was CTO at Amazon at the time. He did explain that Amazon did list books in descending order of

Hi Patrick, Nicely put. I'm not entirely convinced that the separation is as clean as Polanyi would like though, because it only considers individual knowledge and not that of the

Congrats, Cindy! I was going to ask you for the references you mentioned. I saw Stuart French asking for them. You sent the link but also mentioned that Gallup references were going to be sent that

Rob, Excellent articulation, as I would expect from you. Yes, I did simplify -- ala Gladwell. Your more detailed clarification is helpful for all. purposeful (presumably correct form) practice (10,000

Agreed. Networks are good in that they’re capable of enabling or disabling conditions that lead to the production or suppression of knowledge in all forms. Stan et all have been working hard to

Spot on. I’m looking for the *Like* button Patrick! ☺ I think Senge expressed a lot of this fascinating thread succinctly in his quote: “Sharing knowledge is not about giving people

Great to see Gary Klein’s work being brought in Rob. It seems to me that explication is an entirely different kind of knowledge activity than understanding or knowing, or knowing how to. They are of

Re: 10,000 hr rule … the original research never said that. That’s Malcolm Gladwell’s simplification in Outliers (https://thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2009/07/29/book-review-outliers/)

Excellent discussion on an age-old topic: tacit vs. explicit. Some have long claimed tacit is knowledge and explicit is just information. The ISO 30401:2018 argues otherwise. I do as well. Here's a

I hear you Patrick and mostly agree, to me understanding something means I can articulate it to someone else, this is perhaps something I've learned by being a professor, I can't teach something I

Hi Murray I would just swap out one word in your sentence Speaking for myself, I often think I understand something without being able to articulate it (maybe that’s an illusion!!), and sometimes I

Actually, many would argue that there is no such thing as purely tacit knowledge or purely explicit knowledge, that both have degrees of tacitness and explicitness and that the degree of each varies

Hi Valdis I’ve been following your Amazon book mapping activities for as long as you’ve been doing them. They do paint a persistent and persuasive picture. However the other day, I wondered how

Many would argue that once tacit knowledge is captured it is no longer tacit, and therefore degraded. If your intention is to benefit from online exchanges through the sharing of tacit knowledge it is

Yeah Leif, Cambridge Analytica, GRU, or NSA … take your pick. 😏

Thank you, Yehuda. I also think that if knowledge and information were available to more people, the waiting and findability would decline. Regards, Cindy

Thank you, Liz. That's definitely a point that crosses into the Lean waste of "Waiting" as well. Regards, Cindy

Stu, Attached is the Gallup report. Regards, Cindy

I'd really like the approach of increasing the Sharing aspect, because we are mostly talking about Findability. Meaning, we put a lot of effort on the search results for the end users and not

Cindy, congratulations! Your comment about employees waiting five to ten hours each week for unique knowledge prompted me to think through the kind of knowledge I'm waiting for each week and how we