Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness

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Consider this as a method of sharing knowledge, at a different level

... as the information economy has become more enveloping, cultural capital and economic capital have become ever more intertwined. Individuals and classes that are good at winning the cultural competitions Bourdieu described tend to dominate the places where economic opportunity is richest; they tend to harmonize with affluent networks and do well financially.
... the drive to create inequality is an endemic social sin. Every hour most of us, unconsciously or not, try to win subtle status points, earn cultural affirmation, develop our tastes, promote our lifestyles and advance our class. All of those microbehaviors open up social distances, which then, by the by, open up geographic and economic gaps.

Getting Radical About Inequality by David Brooks, New York Times, 18 July 2017

You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...

... but we might touch upon them in conversation

How can an organization transfer knowledge effectively? The short answer, and the best one, is: hire smart people and let them talk to one another. Unfortunately, the second part of this advice is the more difficult to put into practice.

1. Chapter 5 - Knowledge Transfer in Davenport, T. H., & Prusak, L. (2000). Working knowledge: How organizations manage what they know. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press.

The decision to seek information from someone in the face of a new problem or opportunity is likely affected by one's perception of another person's expertise. A baseline condition for turning to a given individual for information is awareness of that individual as a possible source in light of a current problem or opportunity.

2. Borgatti, S. P., & Cross, R. (April 01, 2003). A Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks. Management Science, 49, 4, 432-445.

Things we may talk about

• knowledge boundaries
• informal knowledge sharing and informal knowledge sharing strategies
• trust and common ground
• antecedents of information seeking
• knowledge absorption

Something else

Ojalá

Silvio Rodríguez is another of the leaders of the Nueva Trova movement, but he is interesting in that he is also a member of Parliament in Cuba. His Last.fm entry notes ...

He is known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón and La maza. Rodríguez is well known for socially critical yet ambiguous lyrics, which have raised the suspicions of both the Cuban government and Cuban-American groups on various occasions.

Note the emotions among the audience.

Decades later, a much older Silvio Rodriguez with the same song and the same audience reactions.