Denham Grey is a Knowledge Management consultant from Indianapolis with a passion for virtual teams, knowledge ecology, communities of practice, distance learning and building corporate memory.
What counts is intrinsic motivation, what matters is how you couple and evaluate personal identity when you hire, how you nuture and assist folks to strengthen their identities in the workplace. Never under estimate the 'pull' of leadership example and the need to model quality sharing behavior. This works faster, gives lasting results and puts the emphasis where it matters most, NOT the push of rewards, but the pull of indentity, the support of engagement and the bonds of belonging.
Knowledge is embodied in people gathered in communities and networks.
The road to knowledge is via people, conversations, connections and relationships.
Knowledge surfaces through dialog, all knowledge is socially mediated and access to knowledge is by connecting to people that know or know who to contact.
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
The Gurteen Knowledge Community is a global learning community
of over 21,000 people in 160 countries across the world.
The community is for people who are committed to making a difference:
people who wish to share and learn from each other and who strive to see
the world differently, think differently and act differently.
Membership of the Gurteen Knowledge Community is free.