Take a look at the latest blog post from The Drucker Institute: If You Don’t Have Steve Jobs’ Personality, Don’t Fret. Continuing our ongoing discussion about the attributes of the successful knowledge strategist, here’s good advice about how to succeed as a leader. In my opinion what’s offered here applies as well to the knowledge strategist (or any knowledge worker with responsibility for knowledge services delivery) as to the CEO. And if you don’t have time to read the entire post, here are the five “practices in particular” that the most able leaders have acquired and turned into habits:…
read more »
We have strong opinions about the role of sponsorship in KM/knowledge services, and we work hard to obtain sponsorship for the work we do. Let’s turn that around and connect the value of KM/knowledge services sponsorship to the larger organization (in this case, to the huge multinational financial institutions currently on the firing line). Colleague Kate Pugh has contributeed an important comment at The Great Debate, the Reuters discussion site. In How Big Banks can Fix Their Leadership Blindspots (disclosure: Kate and I are both faculty members for Columbia University’s M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy program), Kate offers…
read more »
We continued our walk down Park Avenue, and Kevin Manion and I continued our good conversation about the attributes managers look for in the successful knowledge strategist. And on this subject, Kevin (who works at Consumer Reports in Yonkers, NY) is a man knows whereof he speaks. Throughout his wide-ranging career, Kevin has had an amazing run of valuable opportunities to put together his concepts about communication and knowledge management, knowledge services, and the link between knowledge strategy and the larger organizational business strategy (we explored these in the last SMR post). Prior to his current position as Director…
read more »