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"Knowledge Management: What has Wisdom got to do with it?"Gurteen Knowledge Cafe with Prof. Bruce Lloyd (24 Jan 2006) |
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Date: Tuesday 24th January 2006 6:00pm - 8:30pm You may arrive as early as 6:00 to network but the kcafe will not start until 6:30. We will go for a drink in a local pub after the event) Host: Professor Bruce Lloyd Host Organization: London South Bank University  Location Address London South Bank University Southwark Campus 103 Borough Road London SE1 0AA Room: L258 Location Map:http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/about/maps.shtml Directions: The room is in the London Road building ... opposite the Keyworth centre which is opposite the building weher the last two knowledge cafes have been held. Walk 100 yards up the London Road from the Elephant & Castle tube exit (South Bank University exit), past the Technopark and up the slip walk way to reception and then ask for directions to the room. Facilitator: Professor Bruce Lloyd  /VIEW-IMAGE/$File/view-image.png "Image information"){kind=small} He has a degree in Chemical Engineering and a MSc (Economics) / MBA from the London Business School. He obtained his PhD (by published work) in 1996 for his work on 'The Future of Offices and office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy'. Over the past twenty years he has been involved on the Executive of the Strategic Planning Society and as a Council Member of the (now) Chartered Management Institute. He was a member of the latter's Advisory Board for a research project on 'Leadership: A Challenge for All' and was involved in a development of that project which was specifically concerned with leadership issues in the public sector. Since the late 1960's he has written extensively on a wide range of strategy related issues, including an article 'Leadership and Power: Where Responsibility Makes the Difference', in 'Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn', Edited by Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons and Alyssa Freas, Jossey-Bass (2000)) and more recently he has been exploring the relationship between Leadership, Wisdom and Knowledge Management. He has undertaken over 30 interviews with leading thinkers on leadership published in 'Leadership and Organizational Development Journal', as well having done other interviews for the 'Tomorrow Project Bulletin'. He was also the UK co-ordinator for ACUNU 'The Millennium Project' 1999-2005. Theme: Knowledge Management: What has Wisdom got to do with it? "Wisdom is the way we incorporate our values into our decision making process and it is our values that determine the way we define that critical word ‘quality’. The word ‘quality’ can also be seen as another way of distinguishing progress from change. Not all change is progress and it is our values that ultimately determine our priorities and it is these priorities that then become the criteria we use to distinguish between change and progress. This presentation will discuss the key questions:
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