How to curb overconfidence by considering the unknowns

Favorite Overconfidence is one of the most powerful cognitive biases that affects KM. Here is how to address it. un-overconfidence, by gene brooks, on Flickr Cognitive biases are the plague of Knowledge Management. They cause people to neglect evidence, to fail to notice things, to reinvent their memory, and to

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Shared by Nick Milton September 17, 2018

Why winners don’t learn (the winner’s curse)

Favorite Teams and individuals who are winning, are often the poorest at learning – a particular form of “winner’s curse”. Great Quotes about learning, by Aaron Osborne on Flickr Who learned more about Tank Warfare from World War One? Was it the victorious Americans, British and French, or the losing

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Shared by Nick Milton May 5, 2017

Tacit Knowledge and cognitive bias

Favorite Is that really Tacit Knowledge in your head, or is it just the Stories you like to tell yourself? IMAGINATION by archanN on wikimedia commons All Knowledge Managers know about the difference between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge, and the difference between the undocumented knowledge you hold in your

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Shared by Nick Milton March 20, 2017