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Magic City CPA Presentation “Social Knowledge”
On 7 November, John had the opportunity to present to a group of Certified Public Accountants at Minot State University in Minot, ND. The title of the presentation was “Social Knowledge: Are we ready for the future?.” A copy of the presentation is available for download from Slideshare. The event brochure is here: Girard – Minot CPA – November 2011
Information Overload – The Tip of the Iceberg
by John Girard and Michael Allison, published in Inside Knowledge Have you ever wondered what business-related issue creates the most anxiety amongst middle managers? The fact that information overload would be near the top of the list might surprise you. In December, 2007 Basex, a knowledge economy research and advisory firm, named information overload as the [...]
Canadian Manager Magazine Features our New Book
Canadian Manager Magazine featured a full-page highlight of our new book, A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance. The review is available for download here. Here is the content: A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance Today when most executives consider the intellectual capital [...]
The Future of Management . . . Are you Ready?
by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Canadian Manager Magazine For the past two decades, public and private sector executives and managers have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers, terrorism, the troubling economy, and a host of other [...]
Information Anxiety – Learning from History
By John Girard, published in the Indian PC Magazine. The genesis of a recent project was the belief that the downsizing, rightsizing or whatever the politically correct euphemism for events during the late 20th century created an environment in which many middle managers were having difficulty dealing with the increasing volume of information. Some might argue that [...]
Diapers, Pop-Tarts, and Dog Food
By John P. Girard, published in Prairie Business Magazine. In the early 1990’s, the retail industry watched with great interest as something called data mining gained popularity. For the first time, extremely powerful computers – well at least powerful in 1990’s terms – were available to analyze vast quantities of retail data. The talk of [...]
John’s Interview on KSA2 TV
During a visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, I facilitated a series of management seminars in conjunction with Success Steps. The focus of the events included leadership, the learning organization, and empowering knowledge workers. During my stay I was interviewed by KSA2 television. Below are YouTube videos of the four-part interview:
Let Managers Sleep!
by John P. Girard, published in Canadian Government Executive. A time-honoured consultant’s tactic is to ask executives what keeps them awake at night. The answer to this simple question often provides a clue as to burning platform from which the seasoned consultant may offer advice on how to solve the executive’s problems. Of course this does [...]