The subject of this post is Andrew Doughman, a young journalist I met recently in Nairobi. Andrew’s work has made quite an impression on me and some of my friends in the community. Andrew is finishing up his studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, and he has been in Kenya to work as …
Archives for October 2010
Strategic Learning: Can We Learn to Love Learning?
It occurs to me – as I read Debbie Schachter’s recent essay about “internalizing the love of learning” – that perhaps one of the barriers to strategic learning is that very thing: some people just have not figured out that learning only happens when one wants to learn. And the desire doesn’t kick in when …
Drucker Management for Libraries
The management of non-profits was always one of Peter Drucker’s great interests, and he gave much attention to the role of management excellence and its importance for non-profits, particularly later in his work. In The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Nonprofit Organization (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993), Drucker expressed his goals …
Foreclosures: Where Was the Strategic Learning?
Let’s not kid ourselves. When it comes to KM/knowledge services, there is definitely a great deal of ignorance out there. And coming up with a feasible “work around” (to use the popular IT term) is pretty much part of the picture in most companies. Sure, we all lament the costs, costs that are usually very, …
KD/KS in American Politics: Can We Get to the Higher Ground?
I’m not so sure, and perhaps the question is more than rhetorical. It seems that wherever I travel, colleagues in other countries are fascinated – and a little frightened – by what’s happening in American politics. The much-talked-about polarization seems to be taking its toll not only in political campaigns in the United States, but …