By Laurence Prusak I almost hesitate to write this column because I devoutly believe that too much is made of “leadership” in business curriculums and in the popular press.
By Laurence Prusak NASA’s fiftieth anniversary, being observed in a variety of ways this year, including in this special issue of ASK, makes me think about the importance of looking back—not just to celebrate but to learn from the past.
By Laurence Prusak and Don Cohen NASA is unquestionably a knowledge-intensive organization. Among government agencies, it is probably the most knowledge intensive.
By Laurence Prusak Knowledge management as a discipline and practice has now been with us for about twenty years and shows no sign of disappearing into that distant land where old fads and fashions go.
By Laurence Prusak When I was twelve or so I fell in love with science fiction. It was a short but intense love affair lasting about three years, but its consequences are still very much alive within me. I was brought back to this early passion recently by reading some of the many obituaries for […]
By Larry Prusak One of the defining features of society and the economy at the beginning of the twenty-first century is the plummeting cost of working with information.
By Laurence Prusak In our Western culture, to manage means to control. Especially in organizations, management of traditional resources like land, labor, and capital means being able to count and measure them, move them around, buy and sell them, and, in general, have complete control of them.
By Laurence Prusak Sometimes a concept seems to be everywhere at once. It arrives on the scene seemingly from nowhere, and everybody is suddenly talking and writing about it. One such idea is trust.
By Laurence Prusak The complexity of NASA’s projects and the challenge of coordinating and communicating among the centers and organizations that do the work have parallels in enterprises that flourished long before the beginning of the space age.
