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Consider This

As you read Knowledge Flow, there are “Consider This” questions throughout. Here they are, in a handy table. So you can answer as you read.
Consider This
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KFlow Chapters
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What are your reasons for reading this book?
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What is your experience of the Pain Train? What do you find most exhausting?
Open
If you could change one thing about how your organization operates, what would you change?
Open
What if knowledge isn’t something you have but your ability to develop, design, invent, facilitate, build and architect the flow of knowledge? What would change in your daily life?
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Close your eyes for a moment and imagine: An uber nerd who loves coding, talking about technology, playing board games and reading snarky science fiction. Did you mother come to mind? (Who did?)
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What was your experience, reading the section on epistemological myths: widely-held but false or misleading beliefs about what knowledge is, who possesses it, or how it works?
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Which of the Six Dominant Delusions (of Unusual Size) impact your daily work? How?
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How might you stop yelling at the tidal wave and instead, reclaim your time, energy, and attention?
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Are you facing a problem that sometimes happens -- dependent on circumstances? How do you figure out the patterns involved?
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In what area of work would you like a partner? Someone who thinks differently, whose skills would compliment yours?
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In your current situation, think of one word or concept that is often misused or misunderstood. What would help you cultivate shared meaning?
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Describe one decision recently made for you that would have been better made by you? How would you restructure the process?
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If you could change one "way we do things" ... what would it be? Is there a "truth" about how we work that has never seemed true to you?
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Is there a challenge you are facing that would benefit from adding a lightweight “notice → test → reframe → act” loop to make impact visible? How would you describe it to others?
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Which of the truths are you already living? Where are the delusions and truths at play in your work? Which truth resonates? Which truth made you want to argue? Describe your reaction.
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Notice a moment when you jump right into solutioning and consider whether or not you understand the problem.
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Notice your first conclusion. Write it down and ask yourself if there are other possibilities.
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Notice the impact of the larger environment on a decision you are making. What supports you? What makes it more difficult?
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Recognize a discussion that is going around and around without resolution. Are there any concepts or experience that might be diverging?
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Recognize an idea that you haven’t validated. Describe three reasons that convinced you it was worthwhile. Is your conclusion sound?
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Link relevant information, from within a clutter of information, in a way the brings out a meaningful insight. (Bonus points if you do it again, with the same clutter on information, generating a different meaningful insight.)
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Link one perspective to another another, usually unrelated, perspective in a way that generates more meaning.
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Transform a moment when your first response to an idea would be “No”. Acknowledge what you’ve heard to ensure you’ve understand correctly, “Yes, and ..” build on it with your experience.
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Transform an idea by showing it from three divergent, cross-functional perspectives. Describe the idea with words that make sense to all three.
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Transform the relationship between two silo’d parts of an organization by collaborating to generate something that neither part could generate alone.
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Share one small adaption that might improve an unsatisfying experience, one impacted by changing circumstances.
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Share an insight you gained by pairing with someone who works in a different part of the organization.
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What’s your “water story”? An experience where the gap between what you knew and what you could embody revealed new insight?
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