CC Minus 491: Conference Networking

Going to possibly my last APQC KM conference this week. Question to ponder is "How can I maximize this for me and the company"?

Personal Objectives:

• Meet new and more people with similar interests
• Get contacts that I can followup on
• Explore new areas of work
• Learn about consulting in this field

Corporate Objectives:

• KM Change Management / Introduction ideas
• How to implement SP with minimal standards and support for the users
• How to get people to 'comment' on blogs and post in shared sites - people still uncomfortable doing this
• What's the 'bleeding' edge in collaboration and virtual teams?

Also ... have a good time ... just let the speakers and the buzz stimulate the thinking. Can't wait.

CC Minus 504: Some Blood Donations Revive You?!

Sometimes you stress the system and it responds with renewed energy. Like when you eat just a little less than you think you want to; or when you get just a little bit less sleep than you would like.

This sometimes happens at work when you get overloaded. It's can be just the right amount that has you firing on all cylinders, operating at peak performance. Problem is you just can't keep up the pace.

Well good for now! What to do when the engine needs a rest, but there is still so much distance to travel and such a heavy load to transport?

CC Minus 505: Love looking at Timelines beyond

Just love it, love it, love it, when I'm looking at timelines with lots of messy work to be done after my retirement eligibility date. It makes me feel free as a bird, light as a feather, like jumping up and clicking my heels. Like someone gave me a get-out-of-jail free card. Oh how sweet that thought is.
The question will be whether the anticipation is better than the actual event? Sometimes the week before a vacation and that afternoon that you clock off work is the BEST part of the whole feeling of joy. I wonder. But looking forward to finding out !

CC Minus 512: OMG - No more second guessing pls !

So we've been doing this 'thing' - call it a process - for many, many years in different parts of the world with some of the same people even, but now all of the sudden after we've educated a group that can turn as fast as an oil tanker, someone decides the 'name' for this 'thing' needs to change just slightly. Nothing has changed, other than some people's perceptions..... OMG ... are you serious!?@?#$

No, please count me out.

What happened to 80% rule? What happened to work it once, reuse it many times? What happened to plain old fashioned common sense. I'm gonna jump out the window before I go insane too.

There's gotta be a classic Dilbert on this one!

CC Minus 513: Hey, I could DO That !

Attended an all-day virtual training on SP today. The trainer was 'ok'. Not brilliant, not terrible. I thought to myself ... "hey, I could do that every bit as well, if not better"!

Then I started fantasizing about all the courses I could teach for one of our vendors and got pretty excited about that. Need to dribble some water on this seedling.