- A Q&A with Knowledge Management expert Scott Schwartzman, including suggestions on how to keep the knowledge base from getting clogged up with redundancies
- A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools -- "Society's problems are scaling at unprecedented rates, so solutions need to scale also. Our very survival depends on our ability to work together more effectively, to get collectively smarter. Computers -- when used properly -- can help us do this." (via anil's daily links)
- Putting old habits out of their misery -- "it takes the average person more than 15 days to adapt to a change as simple as moving a garbage can from the right side of their desk to the left side" (via Business Pundit)
- Learning and knowledge processing -- "Our brains filter out a great deal of the external stimuli to give us data for the brain to process into sensible information. We can then make decisions and take action based on this processed data in combination with our internal filters and biases."
- The Value of Thinking -- "Ideas are not in short supply. But thinking them through is not valued enough."
- Reciprocal Altruism and Productivity -- "workers who do favors at work are more productive"
- Waking Up a Sleeping Company -- "What do you do when you're the new CEO and your employees tell you, 'But that's the way we've always done it'?"
- Deadline Management: Are You Just Wasting Money? -- an excerpt from Alan Cooper's book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity