http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/11/06/on-definitions-personal-perspective-at-work/ Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:52:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/11/06/on-definitions-personal-perspective-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-25763 A personal view on knowledge work — Mathemagenic Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:34:20 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/11/06.html#a1851#comment-25763 [...] Slide 3: See On definitions: personal perspective at work [...] [...] Slide 3: See On definitions: personal perspective at work [...]

]]> http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/11/06/on-definitions-personal-perspective-at-work/comment-page-1/#comment-3458 Norman Dragt Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:21:32 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2006/11/06.html#a1851#comment-3458 I find the model you present very interesting. Although I do think that you link two inanimate objects to a living one. Community as well as organization are human constructs to make it easier to talk about large groups of persons. If you look at both constructs you will see, that they exist of individuals. And both use the same social mechanisms to make it possible for humans to be part of them. The strange thing however with the community as well as the organization is that they are influenced by humans and influence humans. So you might say that your model should consist of three adjacent circles in which the personal circle is the connection between the community and the organization. Because you as a person have your influence on both the community and the organization as the two social systems influence you. And depending on the organization you are part of, their even might be some kind of overlap between organization and community. A political organization for example will be strongly influenced and will strongly influence the largest community we know, society. Where as a professional organization (e.g. a hospital), will be influenced much stronger by the persons that are part of it, than the communities of which those persons are a part of. So depending on the kind of organization and community, you get different kinds of sizes of circles. Where the largest circle will always be the personal circle, because only humans can hold knowledge. If a community or an organization seems knowledgeable, that is because both are made up from humans. But the social constructs in itself are stupid as the bricks used to build houses. And maybe that is why you have such a problem with finding an answer. As long as you see those social constructs as living entities, and not as a form of human interaction, you can not see how they influence each other. I find the model you present very interesting. Although I do think that you link two inanimate objects to a living one. Community as well as organization are human constructs to make it easier to talk about large groups of persons. If you look at both constructs you will see, that they exist of individuals. And both use the same social mechanisms to make it possible for humans to be part of them.
The strange thing however with the community as well as the organization is that they are influenced by humans and influence humans. So you might say that your model should consist of three adjacent circles in which the personal circle is the connection between the community and the organization. Because you as a person have your influence on both the community and the organization as the two social systems influence you.
And depending on the organization you are part of, their even might be some kind of overlap between organization and community. A political organization for example will be strongly influenced and will strongly influence the largest community we know, society. Where as a professional organization (e.g. a hospital), will be influenced much stronger by the persons that are part of it, than the communities of which those persons are a part of.
So depending on the kind of organization and community, you get different kinds of sizes of circles. Where the largest circle will always be the personal circle, because only humans can hold knowledge. If a community or an organization seems knowledgeable, that is because both are made up from humans. But the social constructs in itself are stupid as the bricks used to build houses.
And maybe that is why you have such a problem with finding an answer. As long as you see those social constructs as living entities, and not as a form of human interaction, you can not see how they influence each other.

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