The actKM community has been debating whether it’s time to extend knowledge management into wisdom management.
When my Morals Tutoring business fails, as it seems likely to do, given the total lack of a market, I may try Wisdom Management. Same Dumpster, new gimmick. (I can only imagine what Wisdom Managed would look like in corporate life, maybe like the mad woman in the attic, caged, lest she escape and call into question Best Practices? Wisdom can be managed, but can it be borne? ) See also this $2 million Wisdom Research Network.
You couldn't make this stuff up (though evidently 17 people interested in managing knowledge crammed into a small windowless room have enough individual hallucinations to come to consensus about the need to manage wisdom).
I presume that they have yet to address the "how", and only came up with a vision statement ...
Posted by: JJ Commoner | April 24, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Once the wisdom production planned for this year has been achieved I suggest we shift our scare resources to the production of folly.
Posted by: Phil | April 24, 2008 at 08:20 PM
You're right ... folly is scary.
We'd be wise (or at least appear knowledgeable) to stay on message, put in place some good metrics, manage what we can measure, and then make the metric indicators gently "disappear" when things don't go the way we wanted them to be managed.
Posted by: JJ Commoner | April 24, 2008 at 08:38 PM
The better part of wisdom is managing your manager.
Posted by: Phil | April 24, 2008 at 11:47 PM