From a remarkably young age Franklin understood the importance of practice. But that drilled, repetitive practice of hitting the same shot over and over again. The fact is it takes practice to be good at anything. Some estimate 10,000 hours of practice. But it is not just any type of practice. MORE >>

I recently read a post, Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work , by my friend, Luis Suarez.   Luis was, in turn, inspired by a post from Oscar Berg, Forget about copying best practices. Luis noted that he has been blogging about knowledge management for seven years and has yet to write a post on KM best practices. MORE >>

I've written before about the importance of reflective practice in professional development --the process of reflecting on your development as a professional and recording those thoughts somehow. The problem for most people is that getting in a regular practice of reflecting and recording can be difficult. MORE >>

link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MORE >>

How might we best go about improving knowledge work, both practices and outputs, in today’s complex organizational environment? Observing, understanding, and emulating their personal practices would be time well spent. Practices worth investigating. Agile Development Practices. Two useful approaches come to mind. MORE >>