It is so nice when ones research and teaching interests intersect. As I’ve been studying practices, I’ve become increasing interested in the “situated” nature of practices (Suchman, 1987; Sharrock & Button, 2003; Lave 1991). This has led me to become increasing interested in the notion of “Communities of practice”:http://www.ewenger.com/theory/communities_of_practice_intro.htm This lead me to some reports …
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“It is exactly in those organizations in which control through the narrowing, trivialization, and decomposition of full participation is most common–in schools and workplaces–that learning is most often an institutional motive and yet, by the argument here, most likely to fail” (Lave, 1991, p. 78). p=. References Lave, J. (1991). Situating learning in communities of practice. In …
“Jim Munroe”:http://nomediakings.org/about has produced a very entertaining and helpful guide to time management. I really like it’s counter-cultural style. So, if you have time check out his “time management for anarchists”:http://nomediakings.org/vidz/time_management_for_anarchists_the_movie.html
In his HBR article _What Is Strategy_, Porter argues that operational effectiveness does not represent a strategy. In other words, planning to be the most “operationally effective” is not a strategy. But I wonder how true this is. Having looked at, and worked with, many SME (Small and medium enterprises), they often have low levels …
Sometimes it’s nice to use a video during a presentation. If you want to use a video in PowerPoint, here are my top-tips. * Make sure the file name is short, and keep the file in the same directory as the .ppt file. * To put a video on a slide, use “Insert->Movie from file”. …
h2. A quick guide to the BCG growth-share matrix. I often find that students understand the concepts behind the BCG growth-share matrix, but don’t know what ‘numbers’ to use when ‘drawing’ it. So here we are … The BCG growth share matrix is a tool for the evaluation of the performance of a company that …
In a recent article Varoufakis (2008, p.1259–1260) says: bq.. To give an example, consider the following simple N-person game known as the Race-to-Zero. N players are asked to write on a piece of paper (in isolation from one another) a real number between 0 and 100 (inclusive). The player whose chosen number is nearest the …
It seems that the producers of “Endnote”:http://www.endnote.com/ are “suing”:http://crookedtimber.org/2008/09/30/gmu-sued-for-zotero/ the producers of “Zotero”:http://www.zotero.org/. On one level, I’m not surprised. Zotero is pretty damn good. For me, it outperforms Endnote in a number of ways, and in the few areas in which it has failings (the Word integration isn’t as slick as it could be), I’m …
Today, I saw “Professor Yehuda Baruch”:http://www.uea.ac.uk/nbs/people/People/Academic/Yehuda+Baruch from the University of East Anglia at Norwich run a workshop called _Opening the black box of academic reviewing and editing _. The session was jointly hosted by the “department of Management and International Business”:http://www.business.auckland.ac.nz/comwebContent/sitemanager/index.cfm?fs=pgv&pageid=23121 and the “department of Psychology”:http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/. It was a most informative session, so much so …
PhD’s and productivity. What could be relevant at this juncture? “Academic Productivity”:http://www.academicproductivity.com/ does what it says on the box. Tucked away on the site are the following observations: bq.. 1. Doing a PhD is lonely 2. Your picking the right advisor will determine your happiness level more than anything else p. The second point reminded …
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been switching over to Zotero for my PhD thesis. With over 300 references and 1,000+ citations this hasn’t been a quick task. Anyway, on Thursday I finally pressed ALT+3 (the key I’ve set up to insert the bibliography) and was rewarded with a VB run-time error ‘6’ (Overflow). …