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Summary: Don't hesitate...
Review: ...trust me and the other reviewers. you will have to wait for a long time to come across another book equally informative, full of sound practical advice, and entertaining. proceed to check-out now.
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Summary: A MUST read for all KMer
Review: A uniquely entertaining book, Learning to Fly is written with the right blend of theory and practice. From the start, Collison & Parcell build an honest and caring relationship with the reader that takes you on a journey of understanding the why and the how of knowledge management (KM).The Chris & Geoff hit on many key issues imperative to a successful knowledge management implementation - ·KM should be focused on business results for business objectives. Emphasizing the importance that organizations don't loose sight of why they are doing KM. ·The explanation of KM as an unconscious competence is an excellent model for organization to use for a self-assessment and then strive to achieve. ·Applying KM holistically through the model of learning before, during and after. Proving that building a learning organization is at the heart of KM. Learning to Fly does it right! I particularly enjoyed the book's creative layout and the way the lessons learned and proven ways to institutionalize KM in any organization are related through thought provoking stories and reflective exercises.
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Summary: A MUST read for all KMer
Review: A uniquely entertaining book, Learning to Fly is written with the right blend of theory and practice. From the start, Collison & Parcell build an honest and caring relationship with the reader that takes you on a journey of understanding the why and the how of knowledge management (KM). The Chris & Geoff hit on many key issues imperative to a successful knowledge management implementation - ·KM should be focused on business results for business objectives. Emphasizing the importance that organizations don't loose sight of why they are doing KM. ·The explanation of KM as an unconscious competence is an excellent model for organization to use for a self-assessment and then strive to achieve. ·Applying KM holistically through the model of learning before, during and after. Proving that building a learning organization is at the heart of KM. Learning to Fly does it right! I particularly enjoyed the book's creative layout and the way the lessons learned and proven ways to institutionalize KM in any organization are related through thought provoking stories and reflective exercises.
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Summary: A MUST read for all KMer
Review: A uniquely entertaining book, Learning to Fly is written with the right blend of theory and practice. From the start, Collison & Parcell build an honest and caring relationship with the reader that takes you on a journey of understanding the why and the how of knowledge management (KM). The Chris & Geoff hit on many key issues imperative to a successful knowledge management implementation - ·KM should be focused on business results for business objectives. Emphasizing the importance that organizations don't loose sight of why they are doing KM. ·The explanation of KM as an unconscious competence is an excellent model for organization to use for a self-assessment and then strive to achieve. ·Applying KM holistically through the model of learning before, during and after. Proving that building a learning organization is at the heart of KM. Learning to Fly does it right! I particularly enjoyed the book's creative layout and the way the lessons learned and proven ways to institutionalize KM in any organization are related through thought provoking stories and reflective exercises.
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Summary: Immediately Useful!
Review: As a Knowledge Manager for a large organisation I come across a lot of books in the field. This has been one of the most helpful and practical KM books that I have seen for some time. We have been able to immediately utilise the advice from the authors to suit our situation. We are just starting out with an implementation of a "corporate yellow pages". We have used references from the book to get signoff for the approach that we wanted to take (ie. a more casual approach rather than a HR-like listing), stolen ideas re the implementation!! and got fantastic support from the authors online. They do reply to your email! We are now well on track with the project, have high levels of buy-in across the organisation from Managing Director down and are keeping it simeple and therefore inside time and budget. The book is well written with a good scattering of English humour to keep you interested! Highly recommended.
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Summary: Beyond the theory
Review: Beyond the theory - here's 'the' hands-on guide to making KM work for real. As a practitioner of KM, I recognise and appreciate many of the initiatives and projects the authors successfully introduced and gained adoption of throughout BP. It's also refreshing to read that they had learning points to review too. This book illustrates how to achieve the ultimate goal - making KM part of the way to do business. KM is, after all, just good management, it shouldn't be regarded as an add-on, something extra to do. I recommend this book unreservedly to all who are engaged in KM activity - from those new to the field to those who (like me) want to make sure that they're doing the right things!
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Summary: Beyond the theory
Review: Beyond the theory - here's 'the' hands-on guide to making KM work for real. As a practitioner of KM, I recognise and appreciate many of the initiatives and projects the authors successfully introduced and gained adoption of throughout BP. It's also refreshing to read that they had learning points to review too. This book illustrates how to achieve the ultimate goal - making KM part of the way to do business. KM is, after all, just good management, it shouldn't be regarded as an add-on, something extra to do. I recommend this book unreservedly to all who are engaged in KM activity - from those new to the field to those who (like me) want to make sure that they're doing the right things!
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Summary: Making sense of knowledge work
Review: Collison & Parcell have put together a very down to earth approach to knowledge management. I liked their simple wisdom: 1) talk to people with the T-shirt: been there, done that 2) learn, learn, learn: before, during and after 3) cultivate a community: for tacit transfer and to keep the repository alive and fresh 4) establish a network: to gather news and keep yourself aware Way too may KM projects chase content, without community, technology without a strategy and compile best practices with no way to validate and refresh. Chris and Geoff have the right spirit and advice when it comes to starting - jump right in and avoid the gradual immersion, ask some key questions, "What are your critical issues?" listen deeply and go with the flow!. Readers will find their people centric views and emphasis on learning, a refreshing and effective way to make sense of knowledge.work. In particular, I found their book easy to navigate, clearly organized and easy to absorb in small chunks - there is a deep lesson there for any aspiring knowledge manager. They certainly hit the high spots in my book: yellowpages so you can find people that know, communities of practice for continuous learning, practices for testing and validating captured content to avoid GIGO (garbage in garbage out) and strategies to embed knowledge in role structures, processes and company lore. A key aspect of learning to fly is the use personal and 3rd party stories to convey meaning and change mindsets. This helps to center the prescriptive aspects and changes the tone from a fieldbook to a readable engaging text. Learning to fly is a handy way to get your KM projects up and away, showing clearly the sky is the limit when we really start to work with our knowledge.
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Summary: We've been waiting for such a practical KM guidebook!
Review: Excellent book! This book serves as a guide book to knowledge management. It covers all of the practical issues we come across, and provides some solutions that at the very least spark our imaginations. Our team uses it as a reference book.
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Summary: Deconstructing a buzz word
Review: Learning to fly gave me a fantastic insight into the world of KM. Along the way, I learnt a lot about my own company! I've seen the term Knowledge Management used as a bit of a buzz word with little substance behind it.
Fortunately this book breaks down the 'buzz' and gives you practical applicable tools and techniques. The book has been a very valuable resource to me, both at home and in my life outside work. My experience with the philosophy and techniques has shown me how much there is to gain from sharing and listening. I recommend this book.
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