Hi Tom,

Thank you for your kind feedback.

As I slip into “retirement” (whatever that is), I feel that it would be such a shame for all this tacit knowledge and experiences in my head to simply gather dust.

Sharing the concepts/insights for others to converse over, and ideally develop further, is a way to passively contribute to the learning and development of new knowledge in future (even if I am unaware of how this happens). This is the most important lesson I learnt for Stan as a role model of genuine sharing and collaboration.

Many years ago I asked the participants at a KM conference in Singapore “Why do KMers treat knowledge like a prisoner?”

Capturing and locking it away to “protect” it.

I suggested it is better to release it to grow and generate new knowledge and insights through conversations and what I termed “Creative Friction (constructive arguments to include a range of differing perspectives (the topic of one of the videos). I know from decades of facilitating learning conversations that a short prompter to include people in a conversation stimulates far better learning outcomes and generate new knowledge and connection between people, better than traditional teaching styles. This is why I hope that learning facilitators (which is a BIG part of KM) can use these to help their practices and why all of my recent academic writing is in open journals.

Please feel free to ask anything and share any benefits you get from these, so that others are encouraged to use them too.

Thanks (see you tomorrow on the SIKM Leaders Zoom call).

A

Dr Arthur Shelley

Principal: www.IntelligentAnswers.com.au 

Founder: Organizational Zoo Ambassadors Network

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Author: Becoming Adaptable Creative facilitation to develop yourself and transform cultures (2021)

Earlier Books: KNOWledge SUCCESSion  Sustained performance and capability growth through knowledge projects (2017)

The Organizational Zoo (2007) & Being a Successful Knowledge Leader (2009)