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A colossal Knowledge Management failure!

Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 8 March 2010

 



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A colossal Knowledge Management failure!
WeblogGurteen Knowledge Log
Knowledge LetterAppears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 117
Posted DateMonday 8 March 2010 14:40 GMT
Posted ByDavid Gurteen
Linkshttp://rondon.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/a-blind-pursuit-of-ta ... 
CategoriesMeasures, Targets and Rewards
PeopleRon Donaldson, Dave Snowden, Alfie Kohn, Daniel Pink

To my mind the failure by business but more so governments to understand the adverse affects of measures, rewards and targets is a colossal Knowledge Management failure. As far as I can tell nearly all the research and evidence shows that rewards and targets do NOT work in complex environments. In fact they have the opposite effect of what is intended! But despite all the evidence to the contrary they continue, out of habit, to put their heads in the sand and do not change.

This post from Ron Donaldson on A blind pursuit of targets points to yet more evidence. I really wish I had collected all the stories of the failure of targets by the Labour government over the last 12 years or so. I think there is enough to write a book! As Ron says "Is anyone in Govt health, education or the environment listening?"

This really is a KM issue. We have the knowledge but we refuse to act on it!

But apart from anything else "we really must stop trying to do things to people and to start to work with them".



If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the Knowledge Café or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on Conversational Leadership
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