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Curse of Knowledge

July 15th, 2007 No Comments

Ron del.icio.us’ed me a link about the Curse of Knowledge. I have to say I have been party to the curse of knowledge on more that one occasion. What I learned is that the curse of knowledge is really a symptom of flawed communication. As the complexity of the information increases so does the [...]

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Under Communication Limits our Effectiveness

September 28th, 2006 No Comments

Why do we have so many meetings that have few observable results?
Simply.
Under communication creates over congregation.
We have so many meetings because the participants spend a great deal of time and effort removing ambiguity and aligning expectations. The ambiguity and misaligned expectation are the symptoms of to little communication. Face to face communication [...]

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Documents as conversation pieces

September 19th, 2006 No Comments

Many times people are unable to sustain a dialog without some concrete representation to reference. In many organizations critical decisions, direction, assumptions and goals go under communicated. A document creates an opportunity to hold critical information but importantly it creates a relationship between the interested parties. The parties may have little opportunity to communicate [...]

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Leading with a progressive message

August 20th, 2006 No Comments

A leader must always communicate a progressive message. It must provide a clear path of advancement on the goal and mission. A progressive message must be:

Honest
Accurate
Actionable
Focused

Communicating a progressive message does not mean one must ignore problems or failures, a progressive message recognises the problems and failures. In recognizing problems and failures the [...]

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