Friday, December 15, 2006

Powerful, FREE ebook on knowledge

http://www.knowingknowledge.com/book.php

At the site above, you can download for FREE a copy of the powerful book by George Siemens. I recommend this book especially to knowledge workers, business leaders, and parents (so they can guide their kids as they grow up in a knowledge-based society).

Siemens wrote: "As goes knowledge, so go organizations."

I could just as well say: "As goes knowledge, so goes success." In other words, knowledge has become so central to the new society and the new economy that success in one's career (or in one's business) necessarily requires that a person have a clear, consistent, effective and easily implemented knowledge strategy.
  • What knowledge MUST you create?
  • How should you process it in order to improve its value?
  • How should you store it?
  • How, when and with whom should you share your knowledge?
  • How, when and with whom should you sell your knowledge or expertise?
These are questions that are central to success in the new economy, and I think Siemens has done a good job of providing a framework in which to discuss important issues related to knowledge discovery, management and capitalization.

I will write more on the book later on.