The bottom line is that if the Government had a policy of supplementing the UK population with vitamin D it could prevent 4.6 million people from getting Covid and could have reduced deaths by over 100,000.

I came across a diagram created by Aaron Sachs and Anupam Kundu from Thoughtworks.

Their Mindset Shifts diagram got me thinking how I would represent my thoughts on organisational transformation. My take on this is that Realisation needs to come before Mindset Shift. You have to have the light bulb moment before you can change your mindset. So here are the realisations I think are needed.

We had a student teacher for English Language. He was definitely counter Grammar School cultural. He had long hair and a long straggly beard. He wore loons. He was like a semi-domesticated hippy.

When I started writing my book I was with an agent. But half way through, when the goal posts for getting a publisher kept moving, I had a change of heart.

My contention is that Knowledge Management isn’t performing. That is because it is, and has been, based on a false assumption.
As Knowledge Managers we have assumed (whether consciously or not) that organisations are complicated, a big machine.

Why are so many knowledge systems second-rate? And they are. Even Professor Tom Davenport acknowledged that ‘..Knowledge Management isn’t dead, but it’s gasping for breath.’

For me it is easier and more creative to write longhand than type. There is something about a pencil and plain paper (lines restrict) that I find much freer than using a keyboard.

“This boy is illiterate”.

I’m sure there was no malice. He just said it as he saw it.