Why You Need a Knowledge Sharing System

May 2, 2009 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Comments Off 

At least once a week when I refer to a web site or a blog or an influential person or business, the person I’m talking to responds - “great, what’s their name, company and url?”
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And once again, I explain that I could never remember that level of detail, but it doesn’t matter because I know how to instantaneously find what I want and need in my personal and solo psf knowledge sharing system.

The response I get to my explanation always surprises me - no response. Nobody ever asks what my system is or how it works or why I consider it a critical asset. I’m surprised because its so apparent to me that its the core of my business and should be for every professional services practitioner.

And its free!

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Concept Fatigue

April 11, 2009 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Comments Off 

Isn’t it wonderful to have access to a world of knowledge for our consumption and upon which we can build our businesses, differentiate our brands and better direct our personal lives? Or not.
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In fact, when we’re overly driven to add more, to learn more, to understand more, to know more.. we can set ourselves up for the suffering that sneaks up when we’re overly attached to more and more of anything. The excitement of discovering new content, and following new threads and people, wears off and we’re left bewildered about why there’s a sudden shift in our mood to one of tension with mind and body in a knot.

We’re all susceptible to concept fatigue although I believe its easier to see in others.

For example, self-awareness is the cornerstone of my business and personal direction. So I’ve been stoked to recently discover new ideas, insights and perspectives at the intersection of consciousness, neuroscience and cognition. This week alone I added several books and videos. I was on a roll, stuffing my mind non-stop with great new stuff and figuring out how it would fit. My ego loved it. But the resulting dissatisfaction and total energy drain helped me recognize, and hopefully be more mindful about, the paradox of concept attachment in the conceptual world. You get stress, not success.

Antidotes include stopping at the first sign of tightness, breathing, relaxing and reading anything by Pema Chondron.

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The value of You!

November 24, 2008 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Leave a Comment 

RedShift: The New ROI-Of You

RedShift: The New ROI-Of You

If everything you read or hear about money and finance contradicts your present experience, what you want and where you’re going, why look or listen? Think about it: do you want the so-called “experts” to determine your worth?

You may protest, saying you have $100 in the bank and owe $20,000, so you know you’re toast. Really? By what criteria? Most of the financial valuation criteria was designed for a world economy that bears little resemblance to the present, and maybe none to the near future.

So perhaps:
You’ve heavily invested in your physical well-being that will likely prolong your life for 20 years. Is that not a high-yield investment?

You’ve created a global micro-branded business that is not generating much revenue. What about the many intangible assets that can be amortized? How much? How long?

You’re beginning your encore career and are concerned with making yourself and the world better. How do you value your present and future impact? On how many lives? For how many generations even after you’re gone?

You’re sticking out, for 8 more years, a job you despise to meet your financial goals. How do you value what you really owe for that 8 years, or beyond?

The probable scenarios are countless. What does yours look like?

Remove your attention from the 100% negative financial reporting and boldly claim and create the value of you. Its not a fantasy. Its creative authority. Perhaps your -$19,900 negative worth is actually +$4 million. Which will you intend?.

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VRM and latent buyer intention

September 15, 2008 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Comments Off 

I gave my Intro. to Social Networks for Small Business presentation over the weekend and like to open the workshop describing how the shift in power from seller to buyer has been the driving force. So I’m happy that I’m now following VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, an emerging buyer centric platform. The ProjectVRM Blog: Developing tools for customer independence and engagement with vendors, provides a good overview. VRM is particularly interesting to me because its tied to the Intention Economy.

The Intention Economy is about buyers finding sellers, not sellers finding (or “capturing”) buyers. (Doc Searls)

Most of the VRM work that I’ve scanned is about how relationship, data, identity and transactional tools will support the paradigm shift to truly open markets, where sellers compete to fulfill the buyer’s stated intention. I’m most interested in VRM development with respect to how it will address not just the obvious, but also the latent, buyer intentions:

  • Are intentions beliefs that direct thought and action?
  • Can intentions direct action that is at cross-purposes to what is wanted?
  • When do thought and action become habitual?
  • Can negative habitual actions be changed as awareness of intentions increases?

This may be an area where conversations matter most to buyers and where sellers have the ideal opportunity to earn respect and trust. I’ll be closely following this work, thinking about latent intention scenarios, and how some of my existing program frameworks may be useful to the VRM Project.

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Knowledge and change

July 28, 2008 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Leave a Comment 

We hear a lot about the importance of asking the right questions when kzone.png solving problems and making decisions related to change. Unfortunately, the right questions are rarely asked although there’s a lot of lip service paid.

The greater the challenges, the greater the likelihood of default, reactive, political and ego-driven change response, often couched in buzzword expressions like “out of the box”.

Asking the right questions requires consciousness raising about your knowledge zone. The costs of not being aware include: weak competitive strategies, resistance and low morale, being at the mercy of fate or luck or external conditions and forces.

Whether you’re leading your personal, team, divisional or organizational change, you’ll turbo-charge the question-asking process with the courage to examine your individual and collective knowledge beliefs.

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Not Knowing “How”.

May 1, 2008 by Mary Wynne-Wynter · Comments Off 

I’m noticing increasing individual and collective asking of others in private, business and public life that they answer the following: “How…how are you (or am I) going to do that?”

In one of my last jobs as an employee, a contract came in for strategy consulting for a major retail client and was assigned to me. I was pressured by my manager to communicate “how” I was going to do it and my answer, explaining my experiential process, was not the answer my manager wanted to hear. During that time period, another strategy project was requested by a financial services client. The manager and another consultant determined that using a “thought tool”, that someone in the company had read about, was “how” that project would be done. The general consensus was that I would surely sink and the other consultant would succeed.

In the days that followed, I spent a fair amount of time staring at a large blank whiteboard, doodling around with some terms that kept popping into my mind, thinking about experiences and learning that seemed to fit, following my intuition about what to research and who to interview, and playing around with some patterns, inter-relationships and visuals. Strategies began to emerge for potential large-scale client opportunities and the project was deemed a big success. The other project proceeded much more definitively than mine in a step-by-step path to meet the goal; and then it hit a wall because the final recommendations were pretty much common sensical, small, incremental improvements for the client that did not justify their investment. Concessions had to be made to the client.

So now, a decade later, I think: could I have done better answering “how will I do it”? Probably not to the satisfaction of the person asking. What I have learned is to be vigilant (the “V” in D.R.I.V.E.), and to help others be vigilant, about the negative power and creative buzz-kill in insisting upon asking: “how?”.

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