The Knowledge Activist′s Handbook: Adventures from the Knowledge Trenches

The Knowledge Activist′s Handbook: Adventures from the Knowledge Trenches

by VictorNewman (Author)

Synopsis

The role of the knowledge activist is to be unreasonable, to identify and combine those small grains of truth that have the potential to become pearls.

The Knowledge Activist's Handbook demonstrates through the medium of storytelling how individuals can combine emotion and reflection to create their own knowledge.

Victor Newman, Pfizer's Chief Knowledge Officer, attacks the conspiracy of tedium around KM literature. The Knowledge Activist's Handbook is provocative and counter-cultural. It turns ideas on their heads and entertains while telling stories that offer insights and concrete strategies for improving knowledge and its use in any organization.

This is a book for busy people who want to cut to the chase and have some fun at the same time. Being a knowledge activist means deciding to make thinking about knowledge a personal activity. The Knowledge Activist's Handbook encourages individuals to consider thinking their own thoughts about knowledge by reflecting on their own experience. Each chapter includes stories from the author's consulting experiences and ends with five immediate action points.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 03 Dec 2002

ISBN 10: 184112320X
ISBN 13: 9781841123202

Media Reviews
This is a thoroughly entertaining book to read It is an inspirational title (PS Advisor, 1 April 2003)

essential reading for all corporate learning development and knowledge managers (Human Resource Management, No.4.9 2004)

practical and insightful. I commend it to you... (Professional Marketing, Vol.12, No.6, February 2005)

Author Bio
Victor Newman is Chief Learning Officer of the European Pfizer Research University based at Sandwich, England. His background in business integration and knowledge mean that he is a passionate advocate of pragmatic solutions that connect knowledge across the drug discovery and development process to deliver global best-practice.

He is the inventor of the SuperKnowledge Barefoot , and Predator and knowledge management systems.

Victor is a board member of two knowledge management publications and has a monthly feature comment article, The Knowledge Angle, in Knowledge Management