KM and the country...

Two summers ago I was up on the mountain in this picture drinking water directly from the rock it originates from. In winter it looks like it does on this picture I took last week and getting up there would be a question of serious equipment or willpower.

I decided to come back to the countryside as it is a good way to avoid the busy New Year celebrations in Vienna, where around a million people are expected to roam the streets, drinking and behaving badly.

Here, everything is peaceful, no artificial sounds or lights. Only my neck hurts, from looking at the stars for too long :-)

Have you ever tried explaining to a farmer what knowledge management is? I tried this with the neighbours here because they insisted several times on wanting to know what I do and they now think I am a madman locked up in an office during daytime with no tangible positive contribution to society. Nice.

The neighbour's last job related question was: "So, once you have captured all that knowledge, can you then replace trained lawyers with high-school drop-outs?" I guess he got the point that KM also means deskilling. Call centres have shown us the way how to deskill people and thinking about it, I am actually quite impressed that the process is already that far advanced with lawyers.

And, one final note on the countryside: I dont know where I heard this first, but I just love this one: "You can take a boy out of the country but you can never take the country out of a boy."