Comments on: Rumsfeld, Bush and the Swedenborg conspiracy http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/31/rumsfeld-bush-and-the-swedenborg-conspiracy/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:02:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Prentiss Riddle http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/31/rumsfeld-bush-and-the-swedenborg-conspiracy/#comment-15902 Prentiss Riddle Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:00:24 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/31/rumsfeld-bush-and-the-swedenborgian-plot/#comment-15902 My comment morphed into its own blog entry <a href="http://prentissriddle.com/blog/index.php?p=27" rel="nofollow">here</a>. My comment morphed into its own blog entry here.

]]> By: Prentiss Riddle http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/31/rumsfeld-bush-and-the-swedenborg-conspiracy/#comment-15206 Prentiss Riddle Wed, 15 Jun 2005 03:26:52 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2005/05/31/rumsfeld-bush-and-the-swedenborgian-plot/#comment-15206 I have no idea why Rummy would have left one of the cells empty, but I will say that I took a class in <a href="http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385q/blog/index.php" rel="nofollow">Knowledge Management Systems</a> this semester, and KM consultants see that cell as their bread and butter. In their jargon it is called "tacit knowledge" and their job is to help you capture it, tame it, burn your brand onto its rump, and move it into the Known Knowns corral. (At which point you can fire the staff who knew things you didn't know and move operations offshore to where people know only what you tell them to.) I have no idea why Rummy would have left one of the cells empty, but I will say that I took a class in Knowledge Management Systems this semester, and KM consultants see that cell as their bread and butter.

In their jargon it is called “tacit knowledge” and their job is to help you capture it, tame it, burn your brand onto its rump, and move it into the Known Knowns corral.

(At which point you can fire the staff who knew things you didn’t know and move operations offshore to where people know only what you tell them to.)

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