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Baby Huey
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Username: Baby_huey
Post Number: 171
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 18.104.22.168
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 12:03 pm:
DBM: No, I do not remember seeing a drop-off box for rental car keys in the Dover air terminal. I thought I read that somewhere, but do not know if it is true. bf
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Username: Overlandrover
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Registered: 04-2005
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Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 11:25 am:
BH,when you were in Dover terminal, did you see the Enterprise drop off box. If so, it must be new from the last time I went through.
Good report, know what you mean about different ways to get to Dover from the North. I have been several different ways till I got a Tom Tom.
John D.
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Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 18.104.22.168
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 06:57 am:
Leland suggested "by an SD card with the Europe maps on it for about $250. That should work in your 265."
To prevent this trip report turning into a GPS discussion I suggest the discussion be continued under the existing
"GPS for Europe" Thread
Bill Gregory
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Username: Bill_gregory
Post Number: 423
Registered: 07-2004
Posted From: 188.8.131.52
Posted on Sunday, February 07, 2010 - 06:20 am:
The next time you are in Rota, try the food at Corazon de Jesus. Just keep going straight where you turned to go the the policia and you will come to a rotary that has a sangria stand on the beach side. The restaurant address is 65.
You were probably in Puerto de Santa Maria. Check my write up on the Christmas Markt trip we took in October/November last year and got hung up in Rota for the particulars on both Corazon and La Dorada in Puerto. The food is great and you WILL go back for more.
Good write up!
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Posted From: 220.127.116.11
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:29 pm:
Baby Huey,
I take my Garmin GPS (it is in the truck now so will guess on the model number)..think it is the 275 model.
Has preloaded maps of Europe. Got it at the WP AFB exchange on sale.
Works fine. Even speaks English to me in Spain.
With, or without, rental car I take it.
Great for finding places and getting "unlost."
Even great to use when on bus or train...to see where you are at and what is close by as you travel.
Also nice finding the back roads to Dover AFB.
And finally, great trip report. Thanks
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Username: Myramstein
Post Number: 630
Registered: 11-2007
Posted From: 126.96.36.199
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:17 pm:
Tony: you back in Cadiz now?
See you in the Rota terminal in March.
Tony Cabrera
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Post Number: 1470
Registered: 08-2006
Posted From: 184.108.40.206
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 10:13 pm:
Baby Huey,
Great trip report! I wholeheartedly agree with all of your comments, especially those that describe life in Spain.
Happy travels!
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Registered: 05-2006
Posted From: 184.108.40.206
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 08:53 pm:
You can buy an SD card with the Europe maps on it for about $250. That should work in your 265.
Baby Huey
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Username: Baby_huey
Post Number: 170
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 184.108.40.206
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 08:32 pm:
JohnD, shoot. I bought the Garmin 265 because it had Bluetooth and thought I was being smart. I knew that GPS had been discussed on the site, but hadn't checked it out. I just got frustrated trying to get to Dover on those back roads. I used it coming home and it took my smack through downtown old Dover with its 25 mph speed limits and trucks stopped in the road for deliveries. I may have to fine tune it some more. bf
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Posted From: 126.96.36.199
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 08:18 pm:
bf wrote:
I drove the 2 hours from the DC-Baltimore area to Dover AFB without incident. I have driven that route at least a dozen times, never the same way twice. There is no easy direct route, you have to make a few cutbacks on small roads around the DE-MD line, and I always manage to find a new route.
Roger that. Once you get across the Bay Bridge it is free form time. In the afternoons smile, keep the sun in your rear view mirror, and drive. My Garmin, however, has some pretty set ideas on how to get there.
John D.
Username: John_d
Post Number: 3934
Registered: 06-2003
Posted From: 22.214.171.124
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 08:18 pm:
Baby Huey asked, " I didn't bring the new GPS (does anyone know if it would have worked?)"
The Garmin 265 GPS only comes with North American maps. The GPS itself would have worked and provided you with your location (Lat/Long coordinates) but you would not have had a map display of the local area. If you had bought a Garmin 275 (or other GPS with European maps) then you would have been golden.
Baby Huey
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Username: Baby_huey
Post Number: 169
Registered: 10-2003
Posted From: 18.104.22.168
Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 08:06 pm:
One CAT IV SpaceA Traveler
I didn't think I would get around to writing this up, but 2-3' of snow kinda slows things down to a manageable pace. So here goes!
So work was slow and I got antsy for a trip to Europe. Usually that means a flight from Dover AFB to Ramstein (or Rhein Main in the good ol' days) but I have a kid teaching English in a small town outside of Madrid. So I thought I'd see how things worked at Rota. I usually plan things to death, buying a Thomas Cook Rail Time Tables book to go along with my Eurail pass, but this one had a shorter fuse. On THR night I asked my wife if she cared if I went to Spain to see our kid. She said, "Sure, when are you thinking about going?" I said, "Tomorrow." And the adventure was on.
I drove the 2 hours from the DC-Baltimore area to Dover AFB without incident. I have driven that route at least a dozen times, never the same way twice. There is no easy direct route, you have to make a few cutbacks on small roads around the DE-MD line, and I always manage to find a new route. So when I got to the terminal and confirmed I had time to spare I went to Radio Shack and bought a Garmin 265 GPS.
The two scheduled flights to Rota on FRI night left with no SpaceA PAX. This would be a recurring theme during the trip. I have a boatload of Marriott Rewards points from business travel, so I stayed out at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott for two nights before I got on a hop to Rota on SUN afternoon. It was a C5 where six of us were crammed into 73 seats. We all spread out and I was able to sleep most of the way there, which is unusual for me. I kind of like the C5 – the lack of windows doesn't bother me. We had the usual problems with temperature control – it was cold then hot then cold. I changed rows a few times until they quit fiddling with the temperature controls and I found a tolerable row.
We arrived in Rota eight hours later at 0700 MON local time. I picked up a Chevrolet Matiz at the NEX rental car counter in the Rota Terminal without a reservation. Apparently MONs are a good day to do this as all the kids take them out for the weekend and bring them back early MON morning. No one would confuse a Matiz with a real car, but for $216 a week it's a steal. I decided to hang around Rota for the day and got a room at the BOQ at 1100 for $50. Seemed pricey, but it always takes a day or so for me to get adventurous and venture off the base – especially when I don't speak the local language. I spent a little time wandering around the Rota Main Gate until I found the police station where you have to get your passport stamped. I thought it was immediately off the circle outside the gate, but it is a block down and then take a left and walk another block. Search this site for better directions.
My kid was busy on TUE and WED, so I decided to stay a few days in Marbella at a Marriott Resort. I didn't bring the new GPS (does anyone know if it would have worked?) so I spent alittle more time than I wanted in some town named Puerto Something before I found the excellent Spanish AutoVia (highway) system. Drove through a driving rain all along the Costa del Sol to Marbella. Spent two days at the Marriott resort inside while the wind howled and the rain just poured. I sat snuggled under a comforter, sipping hot tea and watching British WWII war movies on one of the BBC channels piped into the resort – quality quiet time!
On THR I set out for Manzanares, where my kid teaches English in a Spanish high school. It is a small town about two hours SE of Madrid. My supercharged Matiz was roaring down the highway and even reaching the 120km/h speed limit on the downhill stretches. Spent three days with my kid playing cribbage and going out to tapas bars with his friends. I am now officially a big fan of tapas. Basically we'd pay a Euro for a beer (Amstel – go figure) and get a small plate of something that changed with each round. If we were hungry, we'd order a 'Racion' (?sp) which was a bigger plate. I really liked the papas bravas, which were home fried potatoes with a thin ketchup / curry-wursty sauce. Five to ten rounds later you are full and ready to go.
My kid is living a great bohemian existence – 4th-floor walk up, not much work, lots of bars with friends, etc. He is an aspiring writer - just graduated from college with an English major - and is going thru the obligatory Hemingway period. Was fun except his apartment was cold and the hot water in the shower lasted about 15 seconds when it was there at all. Ugh. He's also on Spanish time. On my last night, we stumbled up the stairs at 2230 after 'dinner' and two La Liga soccer games at a tapas bar. After a few games of cribbage, I went to bed and he headed out to start partying with his friends. He says some of the clubs don't open until 0300….
So, I blew back to Rota and ran into two 0-PAX flights to Dover. There was some scuttlebutt that all of the Haitian Relief traffic might be affecting the seats available, I have no idea if that was true. Right after they cancelled another Dover flight, I was fixin' to leave the terminal when a TBA to McGuire was suddenly announced. I figured getting on the right side of the pond was better than staying another night in Rota and hoping the scheduled flights to Dover the following day wouldn't evaporate as the other had. So it was a C17 home for a dozen or so of us SPATs. A USAF unit of 15 or so went back with us, but no cargo, so plenty of room to spread out. Eight and half hours to McGuire AFB, arriving around 1800 local, just missing the Hertz Car Rental on base that closes at 1700. Lodging was full, and I was told a taxi was crazy expensive so I just slept on a sofa for the night.
Up in the am for a bird bath and then took the base shuttle bus to the BX and the Hertz car rental booth. I arrived at 0800 but had to wait (inside) until 0900 for it to open. They had a one-way rental that I could drop off at Dover for $139. I called Enterprise (who I think has a drop-off box in the Dover air terminal) but they couldn't give me a one-way rental. So I drove to Dover long term parking, dropped my bags in the car in case I had trouble with the proffered free ride back to the base from Hertz. BUT – Hertz was happy to drive me the 5 miles or so and dropped me in long-term parking right at my car.
Thoughts: My impression is that Rota is not as busy as Ramstein and there really seemed to be a lot of evaporating flights both at Dover and Rota. But Rota is very SPAT friendly and looks to be a great way to get to Crete and Sicily. Tapas bars are great. The highways in Spain are excellent. If you are really trying to catch a hop, don't leave the terminal. Flying SpaceA is usually great and always a story!! Cheers. bf
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Let's leave poor Colby alone, shall we? Also, let's see if we can talk about this without being self righteous or dicks. I have a whole big post I want to type, but I can't do it right now. Be back later.
I like beef and I like broccoli. Sometimes at the same time.
I know I don't eat healthy but at least I don't do fast food. So my wife saw a movie she says will change the way we eat. I'm scared to watch it.
I've got that movie on my Netflix queue PCP.
I'm an "omnivore", although I very rarely eat red meat. I stick to mostly seafood and poultry. I'm more interested in environmentally friendlier and sustainable ways to raise livestock. They do exist, it's just the meat industry is geared in such a way that to live in what is a more "natural" way (hormone free, free range, grass fed animals) costs about 4x as much, if my past experiences are any indication. It may be because I live in New York City, which isn't exactly known for it's lush green animal pastures lol, but supermarket ground beef is about 2 dollars a pound, while ground beef that meets the criteria up there is about 8.99 a pound. It's ridiculous and not doable for the vast majority of the population. Hell, it only started being doable for me. Don't even get me started on the cost of environmentally friendly fished seafood
This also ties into the whole idea of urban food deserts. I believe Dana mentioned that one pound of beef needs 12? 16? pounds of grain. You can't give a mother in Harlem a 12 pound sack of grain and expect her to know what to do with it. But the education and socioeconomic aspects of this are more Peavey's area of expertise. so I'll leave it alone.
One thing I was thinking about, and vehemently disagree with, is people who put their cats on vegetarian diets. You can make the argument that humans are geared towards being vegetarians (I don't agree, but you can say it), but a cat is built to be a carnivore, through and through. It goes against the nature of your animal to impose your beliefs on it. IMO of course.
I was a vegetarian for a couple of years as a teenager but it was just a phase. I realised how awesome bacon was and came to my senses.
I eat meat now but not red meat and not fish. It has nothing to do with beliefs. The thought of bones in fish makes me want to vomit so I don't eat it. With meat I'm obsessed about it not being cooked properly so I tend not to eat it very often.
Who the hell would make their cat vegetarian??
I just don't think I could go veggie, I like meat too much. I do need to cut down on red meat.
I don't think I could do veggie. I like meat, and I always feel the need to replace one meat product with 6 veggies. I know I don't have to, but my family was always a meat and two veg lot until recently.
There's tutorials about it online. It seems to involve a lot of supplements. I don't see how pills and powders can be healthier for the animal than meat their body has evolved for millions of years to process and survive on. And before anyone talks about how shitty most cat food is, my cats eat better than I do
Also, I saw this over on the other board, and want to address it:
I suppose omnis say those sort of things because many equate meat with food and think of the rest as filler.
I can't speak for Ron, because I'm reasonably certain 3 of his 5 food groups are buffalo wings, but:no. 1000x no. I love vegetables, even funky unpopular ones like broccoli rabe, swiss chard, brussel sprouts, fava beans, lentils, zucchini flowers, dandelion greens, calabasa, yucca etc. I grew up eating these, and cook them several times a week to this day. It's as ignorant a statement as saying vegetarians eat cardboard. Please.
I've seen a few programmes on the 'extreme' diets (human ones, no cats ). Like vegan, raw.. those types, and they all seem to had draws full of magic pills and powders. I'm not saying they must all be like that, but surely if you need to take that many different things to make you healthy, there is something wrong with your chosen diet.
What's ironic is the assertion that meat is gonna kill me, yet the only things that can kill me dead in 5 minutes are fruit. Because I have a massive allergy
ETA I think most people are vegan/vegetarian for moral/ethical reasons, and the supplements are a fair trade off in their opinion.
I know a women who screams and shouts about being vegan, in new leather boots. I get angry just thinking about her.
Ugh. I had to prepare squid in one of my food science courses. So gross. squid ink. Yuck.
I don't eat animals because I can't differentiate between species. Dogs and pigs are both intelligent. I think pigs are even smarter (yes bacon). I know people who eat raised dogs for food in their country just as we do cows and they don't bother me. But I never would. I just love almost all animals equally.
I won't eat fish because they're cool. I actually have reasons, but they're boring and long.
Calamari rocks.
Vegetarian I could maaaaaaaaaaybe do. Vegan, no. My body is seriously 90% cheese and I couldn't go without.
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Choice Band (Forretress) (M) @ Custap Berry Trait: Sturdy EVs: 48 HP / 208 Atk / 252 SDef Careful Nature (+SDef, -SAtk) - Rapid Spin - Stealth Rock - Light Screen - Explosion
Deebo (Deoxys-D) @ Leftovers Trait: Pressure EVs: 248 HP / 252 Def / 8 SDef Calm Nature (+SDef, -Atk) - Spikes - Calm Mind - Thunder - Ice Beam
Kane (Dragonite) (M) @ Leftovers Trait: Multiscale EVs: 196 HP / 56 Def / 240 SAtk / 16 SDef Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Hurricane - Thunder - Surf - Roost
Liberty Bell (Bronzong) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 128 HP / 252 Def / 128 SDef Adamant Nature (+Atk, -SAtk) - Swagger - Psych Up - Iron Head - Zen Headbutt/ Earthquake
(Credit to Josh)
Kyogre Possibly the most dangerous pokemon in the whole metagame with deadly stab Water s Spout further boosted by rain. And your replacing that for signal beam? We have a small problem. Signal beam is bad coverage. These calculations are considering im using a similar Kyogre to what you currently have (Which is below) against your standard 4hp 252Spatk 252Speed Mewtwo Water Spout : 138.5% - 163.2%- Thats allot with no boosts right? Signal Beam : 61.8% - 73.1% and thats super effective..... *If your worried about the reliablity of Water Spout then Surf or Hydro Pump is vaible Surf : 87.5% - 103.1% Its minimum damage is more than a super effective max damage Signal Beam.
If your wondering where i got the calculations from This may answer your question. Im only half way through Kyogre so i will sav eyou the googling time So this will help.
Kyogre @Leftovers 252 Hp / 252 SAtk / 4 Spd Calm Nature -Water Spout/Surf -Substitute/Thunder -Ice Beam -Calm Mind Okay this has always been my Kyogre set i never use any other appart from scarf and this though im more a drought kinda guy. Water Spout over Surf, Sub over Thunder. But set up a sub while they will commonly switch to a pokemon such as an apposing Kyogre with Thunder or palkia with Thunder. They will attack and break the sub (By now you will have almost full health again thanks to two turns of leftovers after the current turn) You calm mind they can hardly touch you thanks to the Hp investment and SDef boost. 33.2% - 39.1% The amount of damage the standard scarf palkia will do to you with a thunder after set up. You now have +1 spatk ice beam will do a nice 2 hit ko or alternativly you could set up two possibly three more. Eventually it will be doing didly squat to you and a sub is now easy to set up.
Arceus-Dark Ok this guy hurts right but how about Arceus-Ghost, it has bette rtype synergy with the team as well as being a great counter to the Speed killer Arceus.
Arceus-Ghost Okay so i couldnt find a Arceus-G sprite and Litwick is similar type wise so here is a Litwick pic. Anyway ill just give you the set, this guy is a beast in Ubers and not many people no it. ;'(
Arceus-Ghost @Spooky Plate 252 Hp / 4 SAtk / 252 Speed Timid Nature -Calm Mind -Judjment -Focus Blast -Recover This is all you need and it is a very handy pokemon as it hits most of ubers at least neutrally without giving pokemon like Terrakions atk boosts ( cough cough Arceus-D). The pokemon that it doesnt hit such as Arceus-N the Extreme killer cant touch this guy and a +2 Shadow claw is still a 3 hit ko thanks to sheer bulk and the investment. Focus Blast hits them pokemon like Darkrai, Arceus, Dialga and Excadrill and with a few boosts even Dark Void Darkrai has problems with you.
Forretress This guy is in Ubers for 2 reasons.
And the role you are trying to use (Tank with rocks is better suited to its spikey friend) So either use this guy or standard Forretress Ferrothorn @Rocky Helmet/Leftovers 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SDef Sassy Nature (0 Speed Evs) -Leech Seed -Stealth Rock/Spikes (Bronzong if you choose to use him can use rocks) -Protect -Gyro Ball/Power Whip Rocky Helmet over leftovers to be a good switch in when a Zekrom try's to catch Kyogre out, Spikes over Stealth Rocks so many pokemon can use rocks and Gyro ball over Power Whip, Power Whip is more common to counter Kyogre and Groudon though it does almost nothing to Groudon and Not so much to Kyogre either. Gyro Ball will hit all scarfers for at least 20% damage and Deoxys-S for almost half.
Standard Forretress @Leftovers/Red Card 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spdef Impish Nature -Rapid Spin -Spikes -Stealth Rock -Volt Switch/Toxic Spikes Red Card is an item ive never used but i know that it can be used very well and especially on forretress as it gives some form of phazing as well as an anti boosting item. Volt Switch is over Toxic Spikes as T-Spikes is noobish IMO but doesnt mean you shouldnt use it. Rapid Spin is crucial if you want Kyogre to be winning these weather wars.
Mewtwo A very obvious replacment and is going to give you some form of physical support to your team witch at the moment you are lacking. Mewtwo @Life Orb/Choice Specs 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Timid Nature -Psystrike -Thunder -Ice beam -Flamethrower/Aura Strike Life Orb over Specs and Strike over Flamethrower due to rain. Psystrike is a very powerfull move and will destroy many pokemon after hazards damage.
Dragonite That set will not hit hard enough for ubers and though it is a Rain abusing set it isnt actually as effective as a pysichal set due to the coverage it provides itself. Also it doesnt support the Special side of the team we already have 1 pokemon that has the exact same coverage almost as well as it hitting twice as hard so i recomend the standard pysichal set.
Not so common in Ubers but neither is Dragonite. This guy has one thing over Dragonite and thats speed, which is also something it has over half the commonly used tier. One Dragon Dance and this kid is away. Though as i said Dragonite is still avalible and is easyer to set up with despite its very common weaknesses and its ability to be countered easly as it has Multiscale. The only problem now is that Allot of the pokemon it can out speed with +1 dd are usually scarfed themselfs making life tough. Salamance runs a similar set to Dragonite and if you you can squeeze a Rayquaza in somewhere that forms the RayMence combo which is very hard to beat if quazer is scarfed.
Talking of the devil, Rayquaza @Life Orb/Focus Sash/Scarf 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 spd Hasty Nture/Adamant -Swords Dance/Dragon Dance/Earthquake -V-Create -Outrage -Extreme Speed Italics is the scarf varient. Scarf is very powerfull and brings great speed to the team. V-Create does not get powered down thanks to Air-Lock and hits Ferrothorn very hard which your team origionally failed at. The rest is self explanitry and tbh i would use this guy just because Ubers is about power it does not take skill to win battles at early stages not untill you rank up higher do you need to get your thinking caps on.
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posted 2 Jul 2002 in Volume 5 Issue 10
The new simplicity
Context, narrative and content
Rather than fading into anonymity like previous management fads, KM has stood the test of time. According to Dave Snowden, however, the discipline is in danger of heading towards an evolutionary dead end. Here he draws on the theory surrounding complex adaptive systems to outline an approach to knowledge management that represents a new level of simplicity, and that promises to liberate the discipline from its current constraints.
Knowledge management has proven itself to be remarkably resilient. It is seven years now since the publication of the first popular publication of the SECI model by Nonaka and Takeuchi, with its four transformations between tacit and explicit knowledge the two-by-two that launched a thousand knowledge initiatives. By now, if we were to follow the normal life-cycle for management fads, KM should have faded or become an embedded part of standard organisational process but, considered as a whole, it has done neither. There are at least three reasons for this:
- KM has attracted a community of true believers, often existing outside the normal power structures of the organisation, who champion their passion through many adversities. Many of these people are not in powerful roles, but they plug away year after year preaching the message, getting sponsorship for the odd initiative and generally making things happen;
- KM as a discipline had many origins, rather than a single defining influence or guru, as in the case of business process re-engineering (BPR) and the concept of the learning organisation. Its genesis has therefore been a gradual evolution from many different sources rather than a big bang. SECI may have been the trigger, but there were many pre-existing strands and thinkers/practitioners who have maternal and paternal claims;
- Knowledge as a subject addresses substantial needs. It brought together everyone who had been oppressed by the tyrannies of a mechanistic and increasingly inhuman approach to management, often instantiated in the worst excesses of BPR.
This last point is important, as it holds the key to determining if knowledge management has a future. A dead end evolutionary route is opening up, in which the tools, techniques and, critically, the objectives and measures of process efficiency are being applied to KM initiatives. Now that knowledge management is mainstream, it is being made to fit the old models. This is nothing new: the teaching masters of the Sufis captured the issue well in a story about Nasrudin: his experience of birds has so far been confined to pigeons. He has never seen a hawk, but when he finally does, his reaction is to make it like a pigeon, for the sake of his own peace of mind but also with the best of all possible intentions (see separate textbox elsewhere on this page).
Too many corporate initiatives are clipping the talons, straightening the beak and trimming the feathers, in turn losing all that can be valuable in a KM programme. Partly this represents a desire for the directive control that was relevant for process and quality management, but which is impossible in knowledge management knowledge can only be volunteered; it cannot be conscripted. This is a deeply pragmatic reality: while I can measure compliance with a process, I can never know if someone is truly using their knowledge. Neither can I rely on loyalty: two decades of treating staff as a disposable commodity has produced a downside for organisations, in that their staff now lease their knowledge to the highest bidder, reserving loyalty for their private networks.
Properly understood, knowledge management challenges over 30 years of consultancy practice and 100 years of management science (the fact that 30 and 100 are numbers associated with fratricidal wars in European History may just be a coincidence, but one that nevertheless offers hope of peace!). It requires us to re-think some of the basic presumptions of reductionism and analytical management theory and practice as to the nature of the way we know things, make decisions and evolve systems.
Complex and complicated
In order to do this, we need to look towards a new science. The current paradigm of management thinking can be traced back to the ideas of Frederick Taylor, who took the ideas of Newtonian physics and applied them to management. In this universe, cause and effect relationships are either known or are knowable, given sufficient time and resources for a thorough investigation. We can see much of current inauthentic KM practice as failing in part because of this presumption. For example, the belief that there is such as thing as best practice is predicated on an ontological assumption that cause and effect can be linked, and that, as a consequence, repetition will produce the same verifiable results. It is this assumption that gives rise to problems in KM. Its not that this idea it is not true, but rather that it is not universally true. Just as Newtonian physics remains useful now that we know it boundaries, so best practice, process re-engineering and the like remain not only useful, but imperative, at least within certain boundaries. However, to manage knowledge we have to move beyond those boundaries into the realms of uncertainty, and here we need a new scientific base to replace that of Newton. For many of us, this can be found in complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory. To understand this, we need to make a distinction between a system that is complex and one that is complicated.
An aircraft is a complicated system; all of its thousands of components are knowable, definable and capable of being catalogued, as are all of the relationships between those components. If necessary, the aircraft can be deconstructed to further explore the nature of its components and their relationships. Cause and effect can be separated, and by understanding their linkages we can control outcomes. The system can be optimised by optimising its parts, as the whole is nothing more or less than the sum of those parts.
Human systems are complex. A complex system comprises many interacting agents, an agent being anything that has an identity. We all exist in many identities: this author can be son, father or brother in different contexts. The same applies to work group identities, both formal and informal, as well as to various social groupings. As we move among identities, we subconsciously observe different rules, rituals and procedures. In such a complex system, the components and their interactions are changing and can never be entirely pinned down. The system is irreducible. Cause and effect cannot be separated because they are intimately intertwined. The system is not the sum of its parts it can be more, is frequently less and is optimised by allowing the sub-optimal behaviour of its components. It cannot be taken apart conceptually or in reality without changing its nature. Two examples make this clearer:
- Consider what happens in an organisation when a rumour of re-organisation surfaces. Typically, the complex human system starts to mutate and change in unknowable ways, and new patterns form in anticipation of the event. On the other hand, if you walk up to an aircraft with a box of tools in your hand, nothing changes;
- A feature of a complex system is the phenomenon of retrospective coherence, in which the current state of affairs always makes logical sense, but only when we look backwards. The pattern is logical, but at the same time is only one of many patterns that could have formed, any one of which would be equally logical.
Organisations tend to study past events to create predictive and prescriptive models for future decisions based on the assumption that they are dealing with a complicated system in which the components and associated relationships are both discoverable and manageable. This stems from the assumptions associated with old science and has been reinforced by a whole industry built between business schools and consultancies in which generalised models are created from analytical study of multiple case histories. These approaches served well in the revolutions of total quality management and business process re-engineering, and continue to be applicable in the domain of the complicated. However, for knowledge and learning we need to use a new science: the science of patterns.
Entrained patterns
Decision making is one of the primary uses of human knowledge and the easiest way to manifest what people know. One of the best techniques for knowledge mapping involves mapping decisions in order to create a meaningful context for knowledge disclosure: we only know what we know when we need to know it. Without contextual stimulation, knowledge capture is only partial at best.
Moreover, there is a mismatch between the way that we make decisions and the way that we say we make them. In reality we make decisions based on previously entrained patterns. When faced with a given situation, we match incoming stimuli with the first fit (not the optimal fit) pattern of our previous experience. That experience may not be personal, but cultural, based on the stories we hear and believe. This is both good and bad. It allows us to use collective prior experience to make decisions quickly, but it can also result in our not seeing things that fail to fit the pattern, representing a form of stereotyping. Interestingly, when people are questioned after they have made a decision, they will generally explain their decision as a choice between rationally evaluated alternatives, although more occasionally it will be described as gut feeling. However, neither answer reflects reality. A similar process can be observed in group decision making, where competition takes place to create a common pattern by reference to past experience or possible futures. Once such a pattern resonates with the group, the decision will be rationalised.
In human systems we can further entrain patterns through the use of artefacts such as processes and procedures, increasing the inherent conservatism of a system. We can also see this phenomenon in group formation. When a group forms all sorts of possibilities are open, and specific roles are unclear. After a period of time, roles will stabilise. These roles in turn will become a constraint on the system, and expectations are built into the system as the pattern of interaction stabilises, leading to increased stability over time unless the structure of the system is radically disrupted. (This is not the same thing as being threatened, however an external threat, real or perceived, is more likely to reinforce roles.)
These insights, which come from naturalistic decision theory and work in neuroscience, are key to understanding how knowledge management can make a real contribution to the future of organisations. Specifically, KM can help in managing the flow of patterns in an organisation, stabilising those that are desirable, destabilising the undesirable and, under controlled conditions, disrupting entrained thinking through perspective shifts to enable the emergence of new insights and understanding.
Implications for knowledge management
The insights that we achieve from CAS theory and from an understanding of patterning in human systems allow us to approach knowledge management in a different way. They also allow a new and extremely effective take on the primary focus of KM, namely decision support and the enabling of innovation. Now that we have a deeper insight into the nature of decision making, we can start to manage the patterns of collective understanding, either to reinforce those patterns under stable situations or to actively disrupt them to sensitise decision makers to a new situation in which old models will no longer work.
Based on funding from the US government in connection with the management of asymmetric threat, the Cynefin Centre has developed a set of tools and techniques that go beyond scenario planning to manage the new dynamics of strategy. This work is provoking a rapid response from senior executives who constantly face conditions of extreme uncertainty. I have lost count of the amount of questions I have heard that run along the lines of, How do I get executive sponsorship for our KM programme? One of the most effective solutions is to demonstrate how KM practice can impact upon the policy of an organisation. Do this, and you immediately become strategic.
With innovation, the issue is how to disrupt entrained patterns of thinking that blind experts to new ideas. One of the problems with traditional approaches to communities of practice is that they tend to reinforce current practice and punish deviants by exclusion. Again this is acceptable within boundaries, but when we cross a boundary to attempt to create a eureka moment this natural conservatism becomes very dangerous. Various approaches to innovation have been explored in previously published articles in Knowledge Management.[1]
This understanding requires a re-examination of what knowledge management actually means. My own definition is that managing knowledge is the creation of shared context, without which no flow of information is either meaningful or practical. However, we need to go beyond this. One way to structure what we can call the post-Nonaka period in KM is to look at the third of the heuristics listed in the textbox elsewhere on this page: we always know more than we can say, and we will always say more than we will write.
The focus on written knowledge, which dominates KM thinking, is only a partial view of the totality of knowledge that needs to be managed. Ever more desperate attempts to force people to codify their knowledge or to seek salvation in technology are doomed to failure if they are used as anything other than incomplete tools. We need to separate what we know from what we can say and from what we can write down. This is the separation of KM as a discipline in three parts: context, narrative and content.
Content management is a hygiene factor: you have to manage documents, you need places for electronic conversations and all the taxonomies, search engines and other tools (too frequently just toys) that abound at any trade show. Context and narrative management on the other hand are relatively new.
Context is key
Trust and understanding are preconditions for creating a shared context and are a part of the patterning that builds in organisations through social networks. Imagine three different situations:
- Someone you have known for several years contacts you with a question. You share the context of many experiences and you know not only what the question means, but that the person will understand your answer. Additionally, you know how far you can trust the person with the answer. As a result, knowledge exchange is effective and has a minimum impact on time. You are also building and reinforcing an existing relationship, which provides additional motivation;
- Now, the same question but from someone with whom you have no prior experience. They work for the same organisation so there is some obligation to answer, but your shared context is limited. You will ask questions and interpret their answers to create increased shared context, all of which is time consuming and often frustrating, although sometimes rewarding. When you do transfer knowledge, it is qualified: Do this and then contact me; Why dont I come and help you for the first couple of days; etc;
- Some idiot with knowledge in their job title asks you to write down what you know in the absence of a specific question. This is impossible, or only an approximation of reality. To do this properly you would have to anticipate as yet unknown contexts.
Both in terms of motivation, and in terms of practicality, we respond best to questions asked both in the context of a historical situation and in the context of a human relationship.
Context management, then, is about building and maintaining links in the informal as much as the formal organisation. There are some interesting new ideas in this field, which is all about managing the channels through which knowledge flows, rather than managing the knowledge itself. One broad and previously published approach here is loosely titled just in time KM. Here the informal or shadow communities that comprise the reality of organisations are allowed to self-organise and self-manage their knowledge, with the organisation focusing on just in time stimulation of knowledge flow from the informal to the formal, when it is needed which is to say, in the context of its need. This type of approach can radically transform the effectiveness of systems (but not their efficiency) by using the energy of the informal, sub-optimal behaviour of the agents to create a holistic and optimal system. This is reasonably well established as an approach, but the field continues to develop. Two tools developed within the Cynefin Centre illustrate the type of new thinking that is emerging in this arena.
Social network stimulation (SNS)
It has been known for some time that the more networked a company, the more knowledge flows and the higher the probability that new ideas and thinking will come to the fore when it is needed. High levels of network density normally take years to achieve as people move between jobs, work on different projects, meet people in social settings and so on. Such networks also build on the basis of personal likes and dislikes we cannot be made to trust someone. SNS aims to intervene in an organisation in such a way as to reduce years of casual relationships into months or weeks. It does this by replicating the informal social processes by which such networks form through reward-based team actions in which teams self-select based on heuristic frameworks designed to channel the natural energy of informal trust networks into the achievement of a goal. Uses include:
- In KM programmes, focusing on the channels through which knowledge will flow, rather than trying to manage knowledge itself;
- In organisation change, fleshing out the details of change by seeing how people self-organise around a general framework before going into the details (most organisational change programmes fail not on the broad vision, but on the details);
- In innovation programmes most organisations are aware that someone somewhere knows something, but the problem is knowing precisely who this is.
Grendle game
Metaphor is a powerful narrative tool that allows people to think about and confront issues in a safe environment. Dealing with issues directly is not only hard, but generally results in both camouflage and self deception. For example, in the 18th century, scientists focused on astronomy as the source of a solution to the problem of measuring longitude, ignoring a rural carpenter who had produced a workable solution a clock that keeps accurate time on board a ship. Wonderfully told in Longitude by Dava Sobel, this story can be given to a board of executives, who can then be asked to consider whether they have ever treated their staff in the same way as the scientists treated the carpenter. This is a question they can answer, as the metaphor provides the stimulation they need to think about the issue in a different way, and also provides a safe space in which such discussions can take place. The Grendle game extends this principle: anthropologists spend a week studying an organisation and a metaphorical space is constructed based on their findings. These can use historical situations, science fiction or other fictional settings. For example, using science fiction allows us to work with real scientists who create alien environments for science fiction writers. Such scientists have whole databases of alien life forms, which allow them to create consistent eclogues. Managers from the organisation are then landed in an alien ecology, and must learn how to survive in an alien environment, which is actually the culture of their own organisation. This tool enables learning, and reveals how people are able to solve problems in an alien environment as a means of creating new understanding of how those problems could be solved in real life. This tool can also be used in mergers, where a variation of the prisoners dilemma can be introduced to two teams from the two merging organisations. In this scenario, the teams compete to gain better prison conditions for themselves or co-operate to escape. By seeing how teams escape, it is possible to gain new insight into how to manage the merger itself. The uses of these technique are many, various and extremely powerful.
Narrative management
Narrative (which is not the same thing as storytelling) is emerging as one of the most exciting approaches to knowledge management. There are many uses for narrative, but the most relevant to the topics covered in this paper is the use of narrative databases. This lies somewhere between content and context management, in that narrative carries or creates its own context, but at a high level of ambiguity. Its use is closer to the natural patterns of knowledge acquisition in organisations, because:
- It is easier and less onerous to capture than written knowledge. For example, I can record to a video camera in ten minutes what would otherwise take two weeks to get around to spending a hour or so writing up;
- It is a natural process, in that when we face a new task or encounter a problem we go and find people to talk to in order to ask questions so that they can provide context-sensitive answers and advice that cannot be provided by past project reviews or idealised statements of best practice.
Narrative databases provide a discourse mechanism across time and space. When we join an organisation it can take some time before we know enough to find our way around. Induction courses and work-related training all help, but it is not until we build a social network of people who have experience of the organisation and, as importantly, have heard their stories, that we really understand how things are done around here. Few people study a best practice database in advance of starting a new project; most will first seek out experienced individuals: friends or mentors whose opinions they respect or to whom they are referred by a trusted source. The problem with this is that we are restricted to our own social networks and the organisation is restricted to its current employees. Narrative databases derive in part from oral history techniques, but also pick up on some of the failures of early KM approaches, in particular those that focus on best practice. In building a narrative database, it is vital to do two things:
- Hold the material in its raw form. Any attempt to censor or interpret the material, in particular attempts to enhance or improve it, will reduce the authenticity of the material and possibly engender distrust in the eventual user;
- The material needs to be indexed based on emergent properties of the native story material. Most commonly these are underlying themes and archetypes that can readily be brought out in workshops.
Narrative databases are remarkably cheap and simple to build. The lack of any need to interpret the material and simple self-indexing of incoming material allow rapid development. They are also often used as a quick and easy entry point into KM, and as a new approach for existing systems. The usage patterns of a narrative database can also be used to prioritise development of more formal codification approaches, based on actual rather than perceived needs. Its the equivalent of planting grass and seeing where people walk before you invest in the extra cost of building paths.
The separation of context from narrative from content can liberate knowledge management from the tired constraints of methods appropriate to complication but not complexity. This approach means that KM is able to make a visible contribution to decision making and innovation without the massive costs of a more traditional systems-based approach. It also delivers more quickly, as it uses the natural contours of the landscape rather than trying to impose a mechanical construction onto organic reality. For many of us, the use of CAS theory represents a new simplicity. It can be difficult and dangerous, because it flies in the face of entrenched practices in management science and threatens the revenue streams associated with recipe book consulting but, once understood, it is elegant in its simplicity and deeply pragmatic.
Dave Snowden was formerly a director of the Institute for Knowledge Management and is now director of the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity, membership of which is open to individuals and organisations. The centre not only develops methods but also runs a series of participatory research programmes in the application of CAS to management. He can be contacted at: email@example.com or via www.ibm.com/services/cynefin
1. Snowden, D., Organic knowledge management in Knowledge Management (Vol. 3, Iss. 7; Vol. 3, Iss. 9; Vol. 3, Iss.10, Ark Group, 2000)
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Nasrudin found a weary falcon sitting one day on his windowsill. He had never seen a bird like this before.
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I am so happy with this carseat! I feel my daughter is extremely safe and it looks good. Picking a carseat was the most important decision to me and I did a lot of research as a first time mom. I love my choice! I use the b-agile stroller, and the two are a perfect match!
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