Posted by Su (Susanne Williams) on September 11, 1998 at 09:21:50:

In Reply to: Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management posted by Robert Benjamin on September 10, 1998 at 12:24:18:

Rob,

I so totally agree that there is a dire trend towards calcifying the whole notion of KM. It seems that the issue is the tension between trying to get some stability and firmness versus keeping the creative drive alive. We see the same in organisations, (and in people) all the time when we watch them evolving.

It seems that the leaders of business intuitively grasp the "alive" issues but need the stability and firmness to "sell" the ideas to those in the organisation who thrive on that stability. A difficult and perpetual issue in any leadership of change scenario...

I feel that one way through this is just to keep pioneering, keep thinking, keep synthesising and dreaming, just as it has always been.

Maybe there simply is this perpetual shift from growth to structure/form. We see it in the natural world in the growth of coral. Suppose it will always be that way. Alway this cycle of birth growth calcification decay death. Nothing new I suppose.

And yes, for me this is, and we should be sailing near that inner man.

Su

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• Re: The Science and Art of Knowledge Management Robert Benjamin 10:25:17 9/11/98 (6)
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