Monthly Archives: June 2004

ADDICTED TO LOVE

Posted on June 15, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Recently I’ve talked about love twice: First when I lamented society’s prohibition of loving more than one person without limit, in my reply to and recapitulation of Glenn Parton’s essay Love Politics, and secondly in stating my belief, obliquely last … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 5 Comments

A PRESCRIPTION FOR ‘WORK EFFECTIVENESS IMPROVEMENT’

Posted on June 14, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Graham Westwood of ProCarta gave me a copy of Bill Jensen’s Simplicity, a book that claims most business problems are a result of unnecessarily complex decision-making processes. I recently wrote that if Knowledge Management were relabeled Work Effectiveness Improvement, both … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 6 Comments

CANADA HEADS INTO POLITICAL CHAOS

Posted on June 13, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Two weeks ago I reported on the upcoming June 28 Canadian election, and predicted that there would be a Liberal minority government, with the NDP holding the balance of power. Since then, groupthink has taken hold, and the anger that … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 9 Comments

CLAIRVOYANT RUINS

Posted on June 12, 2004 by Dave Pollard

There is no darkness. It is all inhabited. It is dense with what has been cast off and barely survived, the events that also have half-lives. And the buildings, the inventions, the plazas and kisses. These are the bones of … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 3 Comments

Awfully Personal Question for June 12, 2004

Posted on June 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Welcome to That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit better. It’s a … Continue reading →

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DRIVING IN NEUTRAL

Posted on June 11, 2004 by Dave Pollard

I grow weary of stories, these shabby accountings of events, true or invented or spun for the teller’s advantage. What does it matter what happened, or did not happen, and why or why not? The past, what was, is history, … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works | 6 Comments

THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

Posted on June 10, 2004 by Dave Pollard

One of the value propositions for Knowledge Management is to improve decision-making. At a recent Toronto KM Consortium meeting, we agreed to study whether KM actually achieves this objective. When we looked for a model of the decision-making process, one … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves, Working Smarter | 9 Comments

HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD

Posted on June 9, 2004 by Dave Pollard

Last week I listed forty actions — technological, social, entrepreneurial, political — that could create a new ‘tipping point’ to restore our planet’s, and our, health, and replace the thirty thousand year old, well-intentioned but fatally flawed and unsustainable culture … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 15 Comments

THE REAL WAR AHEAD

Posted on June 8, 2004 by Dave Pollard

If you’re an American, I can appreciate that your immediate priority for saving the world is to get rid of “the worst president in the history of the United States”. His administration has almost certainly caused more damage to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 9 Comments

HELP COMPILE “THE WEB USER’S ESSENTIAL LINKS AND FREE DOWNLOADS” LIST

Posted on June 7, 2004 by Dave Pollard

My Salon Blog colleague Ted Ritzer keeps a list of Useful Web Sites (for all web users, not just bloggers) originally compiled by Kevin Kelly, of Wired, The Well, and Whole Earth Catalog fame. Kevin no longer maintains his list, … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves, Using Weblogs and Technology | 14 Comments