Watching back episodes of series 3 of The Tudors on long flight today (kudos to Air Canada for leg room in economy) reminded me of a belief I have long held summarised in the title of this post. In any... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Primate diaries (another of my favorite science blogs) had an interesting couple of quotes under the general banner of Intelligent Design: Irrefutable evidence of the evolution of stupidity. You can track all the references directly so I won't summarise them.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Excuse me for asking, but if an elderly man won the Poetry Crown at the Eisteddfod, would he be subject to a headline "Grandfather wins ...."? Somehow I doubt it. Here we have a wonderful poet, with a 1st class... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Speaking about the implications of a knowledge based strategy, Boisot states: In industrialized countries, this kind of management probably holds the key to continued prosperity and social stability. In the emerging economies it offers the prospect of by-passing the... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I'm pleased to say that I managed to reestablish the habit of daily blogging through July. OK i cheated on a few days in changing the date but I operated on a simple heuristic - as long as it was... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

It's being interesting over the last couple of weeks to come across several examples of people defining their position either by being against something, or by extension being for the thing which is against what they are against. Sorry... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I sat up late tonight, well into the early hours of the morning but I will backdate this post to its origin. Daughter had resisted my attempts to get her to not to drive up to London at midnight... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Just a quickie for today, if you haven't seen Ron's post on self-organisation following a bridge failure in Whitby read it now. Its not only a good example, but its a story well told. Oh and if you want a... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

My thanks to Iwan Jenkins for drawing my attention to this article by economist John Kay which acts as a taster for his book Obliguity which I have now ordered. He discussed Franklin's rule as a decision making model.... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

We are coming up to the Fall KM Conference Season again and I am once again Keynoting at both KM Asia and KM World. To be invited back each year is an compliment and its a unique position. Mind you... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Having spent the last week working with the recently formed European Institute for Gender Equality I was more than usually sensitised to two adjacent reports in the online Guardian over the weekend. One a special report on genital mutilation, the... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Today's Dilbert cartoon (see below for the full version) brought back memories of corporate life. Innovation in general seemed to trigger a white blood cell reaction in many a corporate environment. In Data Sciences days I was regularly wheeled... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I've made numerous attempts over the years to watch The Hunt for Red October through without dozing off. The reason for my problem here is that I always seem to try and watch it at the end of a... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Updating the language is unlikely to improve the literary merit; and the thought of some of the worst social attitudes of the 1940s getting any credence is deeply depressing. I found the quote from Tony Summerfield ironic, he is... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

An interesting ethical debate about to arise on Wikipedia (or it will do when I wake up). Is a system which kills people by indifference as bad as a system which kills people deliberately? So choose: your economic system privileges... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Tom Fishburne's cartoons are a frequent tonic when they pop up in my RSS feed, but I really have to take issue with this post. He argues that we need angel advocates rather than devils advocates. Now I am happy... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Now on the final leg of a five week round the world tour my last stop is Vilnius in Lithuania for preliminary work on gender equality in Europe. The flight from Singapore was improved by an upgrade to first... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

Savage Minds in an interesting weekend post argues that the debate between rabid evolutionist-cum atheists and rabid evangelical christians-cum creationists is in reality a conflict between to different permutations of protestant culture. Its a delightful little piece with some wonderful... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

I was on YouTube earlier today checking out on our new video on the Cynefin framework which is doing well in terms of hits although its not anywhere near the Childrens' Party story yet! I hadn't realised that there is... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com

In my post of yesterday I suggested that: far too much management "theory" is shoring up executives by making them feel good without changing their real actions. I wrote that as a response to Rosabeth Moss Kanters Ten essentials... Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com