Your commentary on Web 2.0 should be mandatory reading for those developing corporate training.

Please keep the pragmatics focus that is lacking in our field.

M

“Knowledge management” was a very popular phrase a while back. Like “change management,” it seems to me more a theme than a technology. Not that we can’t benefit from what others have tried; just that this is another area of human experience where someone’s always offering magic beans in trade for your old cow.

“(T)he bad judgement doesn’t have to be yours.” This says it all! Unfortunately there’s no better learning than that from one’s own experience. Why is that unfortunate? Simply because it’s learning based on the experience of only one person.

How enriching it is to be able to learn from the experiences of others. From the self-centred approach, it is just a mind-set.

If we look to the experiences of others that seem to be most successful in imparting learning to us, we would have a list of fears and trepidations. Why? Because the idea that, “I’m never going to let that happen to me,” seems to be more successful at initiating the required learning.

It’s getting the head round this way of thinking that permits one to learn from the experiences of others.

Ka kite
from Middle-earth