The Knowledge Notebook: Where Is the Knowledge at NASA?
By Laurence Prusak Imagine if the Curiosity rover found evidence of life on Mars—not fossil microorganisms, but a live, English-speaking Martian. Suppose he (or it) started asking us questions like,...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Notebook: Saying the F Word
By Laurence Prusak I’d like to talk about an F word that is probably heard less in most organizations than that other F word—the one you thought I meant. The F word I have in mind is “failure.” I’m...
View ArticleKnowledge Notebook: Big Data—The Latest Organizational Idea-Movement
By Laurence Prusak Since the Second World War, something like forty-five major idea-movements have swept through both public and private organizations. They include early time-and-motion studies, the...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Notebook: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
By Laurence Prusak A few decades ago a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, Ithiel de Sola Pool, put out a book called Predicting the Telephone. In it, he discussed the predictions and...
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