Complexity, Innovation, Knowledge and Learning: A quantum interpretation of management

Some excellent works on knowledge management

Last semester, we had an interesting course on knowledge management (see discussion section of this blog).  The eventual assignment for the students was to produce their own "knowledge management road book", based on their own learnings and a resume of a knowledge management textbook.  Three of the assignments were excellent and with the student's agreement, I have made them public now.  I invite you to have a look on what these three example students have produced.

As already mentioned in my earlier post, we are re-baptising this course for next year in a title that gets closer to its content: The quantum interpretation of business: from rational to non-rational forms of knowledge.  To be continued.

Poetry and less rational forms of knowledge

Last week, the Poetry Festival of Lodeve (France), titled "Voix de la Mediterranee" was held. It was an interesting mixture of poetry, music and in fact getting acquainted with different cultures. It recalled an earlier experience I had on a conference on Complexity (for managers) in London, a number of years ago, where David Whyte cited out of his poetry book for managers: The Heart Aroused. In a masters course I recently taught, together with Erna Oldenboom, we labelled it as the rather non-rational forms of knowledge. Details on that course can be found in the news and discussion section of this blog.

Until today, I am not sure we give enough attention to these non-rational (or less-rational) forms of knowledge, be it poetry or music for instance.  During our international seminars a few months ago, we had a course on "Music (and tango in particular) as a metaphor for organisations.  For the students, a world of difference opened.  In an earlier post I commented the book "Duende".  I am waiting for an elective "Flamenco as a metaphor for organisations". Who dares ?