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Is your company stuck in another era?
Added: (Mon Apr 21 2003)
Is your company stuck in another era?
A new book by Carol Kinsey Goman shows how companies today are struggling by without capitalizing on one of their most important assets, “knowledge sharing.”
Ghost Story: A Modern Business Fable is about a young employee who is appointed as a team member for a new project. Dot realizes the team isn’t functioning well, but because of her inexperience, compared to other team members, she feels uncomfortable sharing her thoughts. Through her own little magical adventure, she meets a wide array of
characters and learns the various reasons why employees are reluctant to share what they know. The book shows how companies create pitfalls by using techniques of past times and gives suggestions of new guidelines to follow.
Unlike many business books, this book is very easy to read. It is a small book, less than 120 pages, but very poignant. The lesson of the book comes across very loud and clear, like many other fables do.
While reading the book, I noticed instances in my own company where “knowledge sharing” could have helped our clients greatly and am now implementing a “knowledge sharing” workshop for my own employees. As we enter the information age, every manager and business professional needs the insights and lessons from this book.
There is an old saying, “Knowledge is Power.” But as shown on the cover of the book, a better saying for the business world today is “Knowledge Sharing is Power!”
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D. is the author of eight previous business-related books, including This Isn't the Company I Joined, Creativity In Business, and The Human Side of High-Tech. President of Kinsey Consulting Services, specialists in change-management, she presents keynote addresses and seminars for management conferences and major trade associations. A frequent guest on radio and television shows, Goman has been cited as an authority in media such as Industry Week and Investors Business Daily, as well as on CNN and the NBC Nightly News. She lives with her husband in Berkeley, California.
You may contact the author at:
Carol Kinsey Goman
Kinsey ""Consulting Services
Phone: 510-526-1727
cgoman@ckg.com
www.CKG.com
---Amanda, CK Marketing