I'm in the midst of job hunting, looking for my next position. One of the tools I am using extensively for this is networking - no surprises there, I guess. I'm part of a job search work team that is

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Thanks, all, for your thoughts, pointers and insights. The Granovetter work was especially illuminating and helpful. Hadn't heard of him before - very helpful pointer. So that pretty much clears up my

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"In 1898 psychologist William James wrote at length about varieties of human attention, saying steady attention was the default condition of a mature mind, and that an 'extreme mobility of the attenti

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And this NYT article resonated with me as well - David Brooks talking about Tiger Woods and the difference between him and Rocco Mediate on the golf course in terms of their mental discipline. As a co

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Congratulations, Stan! That is quite exciting news. How are you feeling about the relo to Tampa?? That's a neat part of the state. Will be interested to hear about your new role and what you are doing

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Hello all - today marks my first week in my new job with Gartner Consulting. We do technology and business strategy engagements that leverage Gartner's world-class research and analysis to help client

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Thanks, Valdis. Re competitors, don't know yet. I think Gartner would like to think no one :-) That's based on the business model of coupling our benchmarking research and analyst research with our cl

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Thanks for the tip, Matt. Will definitely be checking that out - especially keeping in mind your feedback. Am curious to know more... Tom coverage of collaborative software a kick in the pants - and I

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I think you might also want to answer a few questions, starting with, "what do you imagine the topic(s) of discussion will be among this putative group of loosely affiliated folks?" If you look around

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I received the following from a recruiter and thought I'd pass it along to this community to see if anyone is interested. If you do decide to follow up I would appreciate it if you could please send m

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It has been some time since I have read anything about this - a Scandanavian firm comes to mind that at one time allegedly reflected the value of social capital on their balance sheet. In the face of

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Thank you, Valdis - I was hoping you'd weigh in here with your latest thinking on this topic and this article fits the bill. The list in your article provides a potential starting point for attaching

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Interesting, and intuitively it makes sense - the idea of the lone inventor toiling away and coming up with a eureka moment has been discredited before. So innovation and worker effectiveness would bo

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In this article in the NYTimes , Jenna Wortham discusses a Burger King promotion offering Facbook users a free Whopper (value: about $3.70) if they delete 1o of their friends. Interesting read in term

#social-media

And the "Readers Digest" version was in the NYTimes yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html

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Anyone aware of any companies attempting to get or actually getting funding from any of the various US Fed Recovery programs to support KM-related activities (including simple things like training for

#consulting

Today's call with Bill Kaplan was timely and interesting - nice presentation, Bill! Having left Gartner a month ago I've spent the last couple weeks regrouping and researching where the business world

#knowledge-retention #monthly-call

Apart from publishing a collection of the presentation decks that were presented, not sure what you had in mind. Even then I have found very little residual value in the various binders full of powerp

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Hello all - I received this from a local recruiter - unfortunately it is located in Washington DC, and at this point are not paying enough to cover travel expenses, so it would probably best suit some

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This is really a classic situation for applying scenario planning. By using scenario planning Blockbuster could have taken a look at critical data points and trends five or ten years ago, as well as s

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