People 2.0: Working in a 2.0 World. Talk given at "Make The Most Of What You Know" conference run by the Intellectual Assets Centre in Edinburgh 1st December 2009.

1. People 2.0 Working in a participatory 2.0 World Make the most of what you know IA Centre December 2009 David Gurteen

5. Question What does it mean to work in a participatory 2.0 world?

6. There are some things best taught indirectly

7. Quotations Quotations are good for capturing and concisely communicating thoughts and ideas. They can be inspirational and can help us reveal and assess the assumptions, values and beliefs that underlie the ways in which we perceive the world.

8. Some quotations to reflect on

9. Walk the talk We must become the change we want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

10. Work with People An innovative, healthy organization requires that we work with people rather than do things to them. Alfie Kohn

12. Have conversations Our most effective KM tool is conversation. The words we choose, the questions we ask, and the metaphors we use to explain ourselves, are what determine our success in creating new knowledge as well as sharing that knowledge with each other. Nancy Dixon

13. Have learning conversations The kind of conversation I’m interested in is one in which you start with a willingness to emerge a slightly different person. Theodore Zeldin

14. Yes, You. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world. Person of the year, December 2006

15. Yes, we . We control the Informaton Age. Welcome to our world.

16. We are moving to a participatory “WE world”

17. Conversation How do we better work in a participatory 2.0 world?

18. Q&A Questions? Thoughts? Comments? Insights?

19. Some of my favourite quotations I did not use that I think you may enjoy 

23. On being taught Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Sir Winston Churchill

24. How Children Fail Children do not need to be made to learn to be better, told what to do or shown how. If they are given access to enough of the world, they will see clearly enough what things are truly important to themselves and to others, and they will make for themselves a better path into that world then anyone else could make for them. John Holt

25. Get real Knowledge Management should be focused on real, tangible intractable problems not aspirational goals. It should deal pragmatically with the evolutionary possibilities of the present rather then seeking idealistic solutions. Dave Snowden

26. Change The only way to change is to change your understanding . Anthony de Mello, Jesuit Priest

27. Raise all the ships on the sea If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton

28. Carpe Diem! Scale back your long hopes to a short period. While we speak, time is envious and is running away from us. Seize the day , trusting little in the future. Horace

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