What are your reasons for reading this book?
Welcome to Knowledge Flow
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What is your experience of the Pain Train? What do you find most exhausting?
Welcome to Knowledge Flow
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If you could change one thing about how your organization operates, what would you change?
Welcome to Knowledge Flow
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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?
Welcome to Knowledge Flow
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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?)
The Fireswamp: Knowledge Myths
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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?
The Fireswamp: Knowledge Myths
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Which of the Six Dominant Delusions (of Unusual Size) impact your daily work? How?
The Fireswamp: Knowledge Myths
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How might you stop yelling at the tidal wave and instead, reclaim your time, energy, and attention?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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Are you facing a problem that sometimes happens -- dependent on circumstances? How do you figure out the patterns involved?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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In what area of work would you like a partner? Someone who thinks differently, whose skills would compliment yours?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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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?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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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?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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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?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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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?
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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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.
The Tidal Wave: Facing the Six Truths
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Notice a moment when you jump right into solutioning and consider whether or not you understand the problem.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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Notice your first conclusion. Write it down and ask yourself if there are other possibilities.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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?
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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?
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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?
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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.)
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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Link one perspective to another another, usually unrelated, perspective in a way that generates more meaning.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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Share one small adaption that might improve an unsatisfying experience, one impacted by changing circumstances.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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Share an insight you gained by pairing with someone who works in a different part of the organization.
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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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?
The Easy Things are Hard: Core Skills
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