Daily Archives: May 11, 2004

DAVE SNOWDEN ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

One of my peers in the badly-named discipline of Knowledge Management is IBM’s complexity guru, Dave Snowden. Last year Dave wrote a paper entitled Managing for Serendipity, which I really enjoyed. Dave appears to share my disdain for the context-free … Continue reading

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MOTHER’S DAY: TRAMPOLINING WITH GRANDMA

The new trampolines for kids come with a high safety net that completely surrounds the sides of the trampoline, so that you don’t need a ‘spotter’ to safeguard against falling off. When you photograph through the net, you get a … Continue reading

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FINAL RESULTS – GREAT CANADIAN SONG CONTEST

As promised, here are the results of the Great Canadian Song contest. At the end of the first round, our four judges, Chris Corrigan, Darren Barefoot, Robert Cooke and I, whittled the 76 nominees down to 20 finalists. We then … Continue reading

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