Feb 18, 2008

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I came across this interesting meme on David Maister's blog:

"Well, there is a new meme zipping around the Net: open the nearest book to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3 following sentences. Then, pass the message along to other people you want to invite to contribute to the game."


So here goes, from The HR Value Proposition by Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank:

"Information is also what binds supply chains together. The more an organization can do to make sure information passes smoothly to the places where people can use it, the better off it will be. And since information is much what creates culture, organizations that create and sustain effective cultures manage information effectively".

Hmm, that's the best articulation of OD and KM linkage that I have come across :-)

So anyone else wants to take this meme up?

1 comment:

  1. GG I don't believe the closest book to you was HR Value Prop!

    Anyway, I'm not at my usual computer, so this isn't even my book:

    From Narayan's The Magic of Malgudi:
    His (Ranga's) business would be no more than taking the boy to the officer. He gently lifted the boy and carried him to the cart.
    He sat in his seat, took the ropes in his hand, raised a foot and kicked the bullock in the stomach, and loosened the rope with the advice to his animal that if it did not for once give up its usual dawdling ways, he would poke a red-hot pike into its side.

    Heh... I'll leave you wondering whether or not that happens!

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