By John Hunter on February 28, 2009
Warren Buffett published his letter to shareholders yesterday. As usual, it is of great interest to anyone interested in the economic, investing and management ideas.
In 1995, MidAmerican became the major provider of electricity in Iowa. By judicious planning and a zeal for efficiency, the company has kept electric prices unchanged since our purchase and [...]
Posted in Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, Management
By Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog @ LeadershipNow on February 28, 2009
Here are a selection of tweets from February 2009:
- Currently, GM supports five retirees in the U.S. for every active employee. Nearly equals the population of Wyoming – almost 500M
- RT @AlexKaris: Children spell the word Love – “T I M E” – make your investment today! – That pretty well nails it!
- So long as our compensation systems encourage execs to look only a year or two ahead, that’s what they’ll continue to do http://ow.ly/uXB
- Our economy didn’t get into this mess because executives were paid too much. Rather they were paid too much for doing the wrong things. WSJ
- Shoichiro Toyoda: “We are not gods, we are not infallible. Sometimes even Tiger Woods misses a shot.” (WSJ Sub Req) http://ow.ly/rWq
- Microsoft is sponsoring a free download of 5 classic HBR articles. http://ow.ly/jqG
- Some “positional leaders” are so good at managing that they obstruct genuine leadership.
- Jack Hayhow’s “Kicking the Recession’s Butt” e-book FREE download here >> http://ow.ly/ilq
- 2009 C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership – Overall Ranking http://ow.ly/ilf
- Many organizations are providing leadership for the past because they don’t understand the present enough to project the future.
- Many Emerging leaders feel stifled because they come to a situation where all questions of how to organize and lead were answered long ago
- The “all-hat-no-cattle leader” Time Magazine http://ow.ly/fmD
- U have 2 get people 2 face up 2 the reality. People will follow you. What they can’t stand is unrealistic deluded leadership. A Norman, ASDA
- Mr. New Deal Harry Hopkins of FERA ‘33: “Our job is to relieve the unemployed not to develop a big social-work organization.” What a concept
- “I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do.” Good insight by Seth Godin.
- What business ppl need to do to regain trust: Stop behaving like 18th century French aristocracy. Think shared sacrifice. http://ow.ly/8Pv
- “That’s the way we’ve always done it.” Are we so tied to our approach that we lose our effectiveness?
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Posted in General, Leading Blog
By KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together on February 28, 2009
We
in knowledge management place such a premium on tacit knowledge that explicit
knowledge would get its feelings hurt, if it had any.
Tacit
knowledge is what people carry in their heads as a consequence of education and
experience. It enables them to respond effectively to new situations, act on
their hunches, and–as
Malcolm Gladwell would say–generally “blink” well.
Explicit
knowledge, on the other hand, is codified knowledge–information and data. It
takes the form of documents, e-mails and, more and more often, social
networking comments. And it can get you
into at least as much trouble as acting on your hunches.
Posted in KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come to, Knowledge Management
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